T-Rex: My stars, do I ever love documentary films. The best form of filmmaking?
T-Rex: As I see it, yes!
T-Rex: What I've come to love is the tension between filmmaker and subject, the way editing can so easily be used to slip the filmmaker's politics into the film. The veneer of realism, the claim of legitimacy - ooh! It's all so GOOD. There's politics in every film, sure, but only documentary makes the claim of truth, and it's THAT claim that makes it all so interesting.
Utahraptor: You're still on about documentary film?
T-Rex: Dude! It's SO GOOD.
T-Rex: My favourite are the extended takes, where you ask your subject a question, they answer it, and then you hold the camera on them for a good ten seconds afterwards while they glance around and look ridiculous.
Utahraptor: It is a great way to subtly undermine your subject without saying a word.
T-Rex: Yep. T-That's what I think!
T-Rex: I-
T-Rex: Um.
