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- Father of West Coast Independent Cinema
- James Broughton was born on November 10, 1913 in Modesto, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Pleasure Garden (1955), The Potted Psalm (1946) and Erogeny (1976). He died on May 17, 1999 in Port Townsend, Washington, USA.
- Film maker, poet, and playwright.
- Lived with the future film critic Pauline Kael for a time in the late 1940s. Her daughter by Broughton, Gina James, was born in 1948.
- All the world's a bed, and men and women merely dreamers.
- Film is a way of seeing. It is not mere looking. It may lead to vision. But these three things are not the same way.
- True poets are as anarchic as Jesus and Lao-Tzu.They particularly love revolutions, for revolutions are symbols of freedom from the major enemies of art: cops, critics,and collective inertia.
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