Amy Heckerling is one of just a handful of women directors who has made a career for herself in the male-dominated world of the American movie industry. She rose to prominence as the director of a raunchy teenage comedy called Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which became one of the surprise box office hits of 1982. In the years since, Heckerling's directorial credits have included such "low-brow" but commercially successful movies as National Lampoon's European Vacation, Clueless, Look Who's Talking, and Look Who's Talking, Too (she also wrote screenplays for the latter three films). In addition, Heckerling has occasionally worked in television, dabbled in acting, and co-authored a book of humor entitled The No-Sex Handbook with Pamela Pettler. However, she remains best known as a writer-director, a vocation in which she feels very much at home. "I'd rather be on a different schedule than the rest of the world...