Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerling
Amy Heckerlingis an American film director. She is an alumna of both New York University and the American Film Institute. She has had a commercially successful career with films including Fast Times at Ridgemont High, European Vacation, Look Who's Talking, and Clueless...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth7 May 1954
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
looks magazines blank
If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
arbitrary treats persons
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.
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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.
girl sex school
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.
cost tiny tomorrow
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.
dream hollywood factories
Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
mother baby father
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
art attended design grew high writer wrote
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.