Amy Heckerling

I just wanted to do something about the teenage experience; it's such a wonderful and horrible time of life. ”

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. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women. ”

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. ”

Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture. ”

I wanted to do something in the style of a comedy of manners. ”

There's a whole vampire community online - those are some crazy people. ”

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. ”