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
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
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
Unfortunately, if you’re going to say anything that’s in your head, you’re going to get some kickback. – Amy Heckerling
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
I’m obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust. – Amy Heckerling
I know I mispronounce things constantly, because maybe I read more than I talk, but I don’t know the proper way to say a lot of things, even though I know what they are. But then I know I look like a moron. – Amy Heckerling
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
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
The building in the Bronx where I grew up was filled with mostly Holocaust survivors. My two best friends’ parents both survived the camps. Everyone in my grandparents’ building had tattoos. I’d go shopping with my grandparents, and the butcher, the baker, everybody in the whole neighborhood had tattoos. – Amy Heckerling
I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it’s such a wonderful and horrible time of life. – Amy Heckerling
Body image – what we’re supposed to look like – is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That’s a horrible thing. – Amy Heckerling
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
In Hollywood, whenever you do anything, it seems like there’s going to be 30 of them. When I did ‘Look Who’s Talking,’ people went: ‘Oh but there’s going to be this baby movie and that baby movie.’ I can’t worry about that. I can only do what I want to do. – Amy Heckerling
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
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
Some women are great, and you wouldn’t have been able to get to where you are without them, and others are doing what they can to undermine you. – Amy Heckerling
There’s something you do when you’re completely confident that just can’t be replicated when you know you’re doing something wrong. – Amy Heckerling
To tell you the truth, in the old Jewish shtetls, if your husband died, sometimes they’d have you marry the brother, and my grandparents were actually stepbrother and stepsister. – Amy Heckerling
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble. – Amy Heckerling
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
Over-the-knee socks remind me of the 1920s, silent films, and the stars of the era who wore the rolled-down stockings. They sort of referenced that in ‘Cabaret,’ when Liza Minnelli was singing ‘Mein Herr,’ and I love the way she looks in that scene. – Amy Heckerling
I was in a special class, where you skip a grade – you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn’t. I was too focused on trying to be popular. – Amy Heckerling
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
