Blood probably tastes like salty water, right?
— 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.
I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
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.
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.
Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
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.
Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
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.
Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.
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.
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
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.
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.
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.
Bitterness is so ugly.
If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
