Thanks guys!
Two new quotes that made me happy all over:
"Cinema is the art of appropriation-whether taking that which is before the camera or that which has already been filmed. We'll never know who first discovered the possibility of re-editing existent footage, but, as Jay Leyda noted in his pioneering Films Beget Films, "We can be sure that the practice is as old as the newsreel itself."" - J. Hoberman
"One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture is that there's way more good popular culture -- because its standards of quality are more forgiving, because sobriety isn't its default mode, because there's so damn much of it. Since there's so damn much of it, and a lot of that is terrible, it rewards connoisseurship. But its strengths are quantity and variety -- democracy." - Robert Christgau
"Cinema is the art of appropriation-whether taking that which is before the camera or that which has already been filmed. We'll never know who first discovered the possibility of re-editing existent footage, but, as Jay Leyda noted in his pioneering Films Beget Films, "We can be sure that the practice is as old as the newsreel itself."" - J. Hoberman
"One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture is that there's way more good popular culture -- because its standards of quality are more forgiving, because sobriety isn't its default mode, because there's so damn much of it. Since there's so damn much of it, and a lot of that is terrible, it rewards connoisseurship. But its strengths are quantity and variety -- democracy." - Robert Christgau