Quotes from 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.

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.

I didn't go to Hebrew school.

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.

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.

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.

I hope they remake 'Look Who's Talking' - then I'd make some money!

I love movies to death. I spent my entire youth in front of a TV watching old movies.

There's something you do when you're completely confident that just can't be replicated when you know you're doing something wrong.

I'm obsessed with history, especially WWII and the Jews in Europe during the Holocaust.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With electronics, they just get smaller and smaller.

I'd rather see what young people are going through than see things explode.

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.

NYU was my comfort zone.

Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.

Bitterness is so ugly.

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.

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.

Unfortunately, if you're going to say anything that's in your head, you're going to get some kickback.

I can't stomach most of the movies about women.