I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life. Amy Heckerling More Quotes by Amy Heckerling More Quotes From Amy Heckerling Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. Amy Heckerling mother baby father Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women. Amy Heckerling factories hollywood dream 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 tiny cost tomorrow I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies. Amy Heckerling youth tvs movie-love I don't know what goes on behind my back... I always feel like, if you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything. Amy Heckerling behind-my-back goes-on say-anything A lot of my movies were completely destroyed by the censors, who can be pretty arbitrary. They're not completely fair with how they treat one person vs. another. Amy Heckerling treats arbitrary persons If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank. Amy Heckerling blank magazines looks The disconnect between what's going on in schools and what's allowed to be shown in movies has gotten really bad because girls in junior high are having oral sex and getting bracelets for it, and in movies everybody's got to be 30 years old to have sex. It's very bizarre. Amy Heckerling girl sex school Bitterness is so ugly. Amy Heckerling ugly bitterness 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 hate sometimes people I love movies to death. 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 weekend museums art With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller. Amy Heckerling smaller get just electronics When new things come along, some people always want the newest of the new - 'This is what I've been waiting for!' - and some people don't want or need the change - 'I like my old one.' Amy Heckerling new-things change waiting people 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 never you stylish confidence I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners. Amy Heckerling something comedy style manners Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there. Amy Heckerling go ugly bitterness want There are a lot of people in Beverly Hills who come from the Middle East, who are very much a part of the Beverly Hills fabric, and their kids grew up with the privileges of Beverly Hills. And yet they still have to deal with a lot of the prejudice against them for being foreign-born. Amy Heckerling against being prejudice people I sometimes think it's better to go with a bad movie that is true to a certain point of view than to take something and make people try to like it when they're not supposed to. Amy Heckerling view think sometimes people 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 see always growing-up way Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture. Amy Heckerling everything pop-culture target culture
