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
It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There’s a big advantage to being the outsider. – Amy Heckerling
There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, ‘Dracula 2000,’ and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas. – Amy Heckerling
Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, ‘No, no, no.’ You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that. – Amy Heckerling
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 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
After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, ‘Are you still with this?’ What does it matter what e-mail you have? – Amy Heckerling
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
Any time I wind up in the lane where you can’t quickly turn off of it and it’s turning into the freeway, I just start screaming until I’m off of it. – Amy Heckerling
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
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
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
When I did ‘Fast Times,’ I felt very close emotionally to the characters. I liked those characters because they all had to work, so they were dealing with adult problems even though they were very immature, and I could relate to that. – Amy Heckerling
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
Babies don’t need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. – Amy Heckerling
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