Quotes by Directors

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

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

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

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people. Amy Heckerling

Crazy People Crazy People Community Those Vampire Some Online Whole

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

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 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

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I really live in my own kind of universe. Amy Heckerling

Own Live Universe Kind My Own Really

I'm just not happy with Hollywood. Amy Heckerling

Happy Just Hollywood

I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies, and as soon as I was able to get a subway pass, when I was 14, I joined the Museum of Modern Art and was there all weekend watching old movies. Amy Heckerling

Sometimes people say, 'Oh you did one of my favorite movies,' and I will ask them what the other one is, and it's always something that I totally hate. Amy Heckerling

You Hate People Sometimes Will Other Say Favorite Favorite Movies People Say Totally Something Always Did Oh Movies Them Ask

I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode. Amy Heckerling

People Young See Rather Through Than Going Young People Explode Things