Louis Theroux Quotes
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L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.
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Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'
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Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
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I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.
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'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
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I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.
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My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.
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When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them.
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For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.
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In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.
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Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.
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I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?'
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I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.
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I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.
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I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.
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When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.
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I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know.
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I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth.
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It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.
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The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.
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There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.
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I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.
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Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real.
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I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.