American - Director | May 7, 1954 -
Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
Amy Heckerling
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If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
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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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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.
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Bitterness is so ugly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life.
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Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
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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.
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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.
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