Dance, vaudeville, drama, movies – as a child I loved everything that went on in a theater. – James Broughton
My films are an extension of my poetry, using the white screen like the white page to be filled with images. – James Broughton
Being identified as a poet in France or Denmark or India one is greeted with gracious respect. – James Broughton
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers. – James Broughton
I think movies do play a valuable role in turning people on to the act of reading. I think that phenomenon just creates readers. At first theyre going to love Harry Potter, or they may love The Hunger Games, but after that, theyre going to love the act of reading and wonder, What else can I read? – Gary Ross