- Born
- Birth nameAmy I. Heckerling
- Height5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
- Amy Heckerling studied Film and TV at New York University and got a Masters Degree in Film from The American Film Institute. Despite this education she couldn't get a break in Hollywood. However, in 1982, she made Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), and people started to take notice. In 1985, while Amy was pregnant, she got the idea for Look Who's Talking (1989). In 1994, Amy wrote Clueless (1995). Amy is a liberal and also an environmentalist and helps environmental charities whenever she can.- IMDb mini biography by: Amy Heckerling Fan Club
- SpousesNeal Israel(July 22, 1984 - 1985) (divorced, 1 child)David Brandt(November 7, 1981 - 1983) (divorced)
- Children
- Has one daughter, Mollie Heckerling (Mollie Sara Israel; September 5, 1985), with Harold Ramis, even though she was married to Neal Israel at the time of her birth. This "family secret" was revealed in "Ghostbuster's Daughter", a book about Harold's life written by his other daughter, Violet Ramis.
- Grew up in an apartment building in The Bronx that was filled with Holocaust survivors.
- Dated Bronson Pinchot (1993-1997). They split up shortly after getting engaged.
- Suffered anorexia.
- Three of her movies were made into TV series. Fast Times (1986) based on Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) lasted less than a season; the short-lived Baby Talk (1991) was based on Look Who's Talking (1989); and Clueless (1996) (Clueless (1995)), which ran for a season on ABC and two more seasons on UPN.
- Bitterness is so ugly. I don't want to go there.
- 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.
- If you look at all the pictures of women in magazines, everybody's got a forehead that looks like a billboard. Completely blank.
- 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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