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Amy Heckerling Quotes
Amy Heckerling
American
Director
Born:
May 7
,
1954
About
Always
Get
Just
People
You
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With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.
Amy Heckerling
Smaller
Get
Just
Electronics
I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
Amy Heckerling
Life
Time
Experience
Wonderful
Teenage
Horrible
About
Something
Just
Wanted
I always get hats but never have the nerve to wear them. Hats are a thing that are really stylish, but you have to have the confidence to pull it off.
Amy Heckerling
You
Confidence
Wear
Nerve
Hats
Never
Stylish
Always
Off
Get
Them
Really
Thing
Pull
I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.
Amy Heckerling
Comedy
Style
Manners
Something
Wanted
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
Amy Heckerling
Needs
Care
Babies
Baby
Fathers
Someone
Taken
Taking
Mothers
Who
Dad
Need
You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.
Amy Heckerling
You
Money
Tomorrow
Big
Virtually
Spend
Astronomical
Out
Promoting
Costs
Could
Make
Go
Tiny
Movie
Movies
Low-Budget
Million
Bitterness is so ugly.
Amy Heckerling
Ugly
Bitterness
I've always hated the way Hollywood has portrayed accountants. They're always little nerd balls, wimpy, afraid of everything. Growing up with accountants, I don't see them that way.
Amy Heckerling
Everything
Way
Hated
Nerd
See
Always
Balls
Up
Accountants
Afraid
Little
Them
Hollywood
Growing
Growing Up
Portrayed
Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
Amy Heckerling
Culture
Teens
Everything
Demographic
Target
Pop
Pop Culture
In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.
Amy Heckerling
Girl
Group
High
Part
Parties
Boy
Were
Friends
Junior
Junior High
Wanted
Them
Really
Popular
Suddenly
Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?
Amy Heckerling
Water
Like
Blood
Salty
Tastes
Right
I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.
Amy Heckerling
History
Jews
Obsessed
WWII
Holocaust
Europe
The way things have changed. The pictures in the womb they have now. They're just amazing. They're just like a snapshot of a person.
Amy Heckerling
Amazing
Changed
Way
Pictures
Like
Womb
Snapshot
Person
Just
Now
Things
When I first got my driver's license, I was hit by a drunk driver. He was coming off of a freeway, and I was hurt pretty badly from somebody driving really fast.
Amy Heckerling
Hurt
Somebody
First
Drunk
License
Pretty
Driver
Driving
He
Badly
Freeway
Got
Coming
Off
Hit
Really
Fast
I went to art and design high school with a lot of people taking fashion. They would get up in the morning, and what they put on meant a lot to them.
Amy Heckerling
Art
Fashion
Morning
People
School
Design
High
Would
High School
Put
Taking
Lot
Up
Get
Them
Meant
I get offered: 'Here's a girl who's mad at another girl for having a wedding on the same day.' That'll be a big hit, but I don't want to do that.
Amy Heckerling
Day
Girl
Big
Mad
Wedding
Having
Another
Big Hit
Hit
Offered
Get
Same
Want
Here
When you have somebody writing or acting for you, you have to be free to have them hate you so you can get your ideas across without worrying.
Amy Heckerling
You
Hate
Writing
Free
Somebody
Worrying
Ideas
Without
Get
Them
Across
Acting
Your
There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people.
Amy Heckerling
Crazy
People
Crazy People
Community
Those
Vampire
Some
Online
Whole
In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.
Amy Heckerling
Love
Freedom
Respect
People
Studio
Hot
Instead
Like
Dictated
Person
Being
Use
Moment
Using
I like being able to tape things and then having them home waiting for you, but just dealing with the Time Warner Cable people will drive you insane.
Amy Heckerling
Time
Home
You
Waiting
People
Will
Drive
Insane
Able
Having
Cable
Like
Dealing
Tape
Just
Being
Them
Then
Warner
Things
I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
Amy Heckerling
Art
You
School
Design
Mad
High
Magazine
High School
About
Point
Write
Writer
Had
Attended
Wrote
Up
Wanted
Grew
The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.
Amy Heckerling
Me
Bronx
Dreary
Seemed
Always
Very
For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.
Amy Heckerling
Home
Me
New
Because
York
New York
Where
I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'
Amy Heckerling
Have Fun
Must
One Thing
Concentrated
Most
Make
Forgot
Being
Movie
Frustrated
Fun
Wasted
Thing
I still find it interesting that there could be a point between a young guy and a girl when they decide to hold hands as they walk down the block. At some point, they decide to make the leap from pushing and insulting each other to doing something tender and possessive and showing the world that.
Amy Heckerling
World
Walk
Girl
Young
Down
Other
Possessive
Find
Some
Something
Guy
Point
Tender
Could
Pushing
Between
Leap
Make
Insulting
Still
Block
Doing
Hands
Hold
Decide
Young Guy
Interesting
Showing
Each
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
Amy Heckerling
Character
About
Something
Could
Bubble
No-One
Optimistic
Wanted
Burst
Really
Who
Her
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