All of us understand the put-and-take of checking accounts, but few understand the careful accounts of deposits and withdrawals that nature keeps.
“The history of cinema consists precisely of every film that has ever been made, for any purpose whatsoever. The metahistorian of cinema, on the other hand, is occupied with inventing a tradition, that is, a coherent, wieldy set of discrete monuments, meant to inseminate resonant consistency into the growing body of his art. Such works may not exist, and then it is his duty to make them.”
Hollis Frampton