I am a woman, and I am Jewish; I'm a film-maker, and I'm a writer, so you cannot just put me in one box.

When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.

I am from a woman's family. My great-grandmother had three daughters and a son. My grandmother had two daughters, and my mother had two daughters. My sister had a daughter and then finally a son. You should have seen my father with the son. He could not believe that finally there was a boy in the family.

I never felt that I belonged. When I was at school... First I went to a Jewish school, when I was very little. But when I was 12, they put me in a school with a lot of traditions, and they were educated people and they were talking about Greece and the Parthenon and I don't know what.

I'm a writer; it's not just what I do, but who I am.

You cannot change me; this is the way I am.