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.

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.