I came to a happy Jewish family in dark days in Europe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I'm a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.
I was one of two Jewish kids in my school. We were probably one of two Jewish families in our town.
My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.
I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
My childhood wasn't very happy. It's a long, grim story about being a Jew in a small southern town.
My father's Jewish, so my world is Jewish whenever I go home.
I think that being Jewish has generated an extremely strong sense of the importance of family. If I look at my Scandinavian colleagues, they don't have that urgency about family. All my movies are about that.
My father was ethnically Jewish, but his family converted to Catholicism.
Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.