Background[edit]

Brody grew up in Roslyn, New York.^[2] He is Jewish and has personally identified as an atheist.^[2][3] Brody attended Princeton University, receiving a BA in comparative literature in 1980.^[2] He first became interested in films after seeing Jean-Luc Godard's seminal French New Wave film Breathless during his freshman year at Princeton.


In the early 1980s, after graduating from college, Brody briefly lived in Paris.^[4] He is the author of a biography of Godard.


Brody has two children with his wife, Maja, who immigrated to the United States from Yugoslavia.^[2][5]