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.

Especially now. My mother told me that Cagney was going to the chair because he was a bad guy and that he was going to die. I don't know what else to say.

Amy Heckerling (born May 7 1954) is an American film director. She is an alumna of both New York University and the American Film Institute.