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“Typically, when we do documentaries, we sort of have a general understanding of what story we want to cover, and we’ll go get interviews to cover the gaps in the story. And we’ll do a lot of historical background and summarizing and stuff like that,” Jones told MTV News. “With Wayne, he was like, ‘I don’t want to do anything that’s really missionary. I want to give this a whole, new, fresh approach, so I don’t necessarily want to do a formal sit-down interview.’ And, I think, long-term, that worked out better for us, because sometimes when people do sit-town interviews and it’s like a formal interview, you have a chance to do knee-jerk responses, and a lot of the questions will be similar to what other people have asked him. In this case, we were like a fly on the wall in his life for, like, seven months before he dropped [Tha Carter III] and about two or three months after.”

“That’s a real special time in his career and life [when we filmed him]. He’ll never get that window back. That’s, like, the best time. We caught him leading up to Tha Carter III and then right after, when he went platinum. We were on the bus with him when he got the message. It was cool, because I think this is probably by far the most intimate film we’ve ever done, because he gave us so much access.”

Lil Wayne: The Carter DVD in stores November 17th.

Q&A footage from the NY screening and some flipcam of the actual movie, after the jump.

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