NYU was my comfort zone.
— 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.
I can't stomach most of the movies about women.
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.
I'm real excited by a phone where I can look at my kid and talk to her face.
I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners.
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.
The Bronx always seemed very dreary to me.
I didn't go to Hebrew school.
Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.
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.
There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy 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.
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.
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.'
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.
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.
When I was 20, I had these furrowed lines between my brows because I was always angry. And I was 20. I don't think that was a mark of age; it was just my personality.
A teenager has to decide what they're going to do with their life, and that's one of the most important decisions that you'll make.
For my money, the movies of the '70s were just amazing.
I'm just not happy with Hollywood.
I really live in my own kind of universe.
I wanted to do something about a really optimistic character: a character who was so optimistic, no one could burst her bubble.
I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'
I wasn't bat mitzvahed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.
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.
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.
I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.
I've always tried to figure out what people think of themselves and what they think they're projecting.
I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.
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.
Everybody who worked in film misses holding pieces of film, holding it up to the light, and seeing exactly where something was image-wise.
I don't think people know 'Nosfuratu.'
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.
For me, New York is home because that's where I'm from.
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.
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.
With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.
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.
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.
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.
After Gmail, if you have AOL, people are like, 'Are you still with this?' What does it matter what e-mail you have?
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.
I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!
