In the 90s, Amy was known to steal her father's video camera to film situations, in which she would terrorize friends using an 'evil clown mask'; a bald version of Stephen King's IT. Her friends later referred to these as the "Clown Chronicles". Her obsession with capturing people's genuine reactions to threat and discomfort on camera phased into an obsession with Andy Kaufmann's alter-ego character, Tony Clifton. Amy connected with Bob Zmuda over this while in preproduction for her thesis film "Gone in 30 Seconds". 16 years later, Amy achieved her goal of being screamed at by Tony Clifton when she did props for his live performances at the Iridium Theater on Broadway in Manhattan.