Louis Theroux Quotes
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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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I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far.
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I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
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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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You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.
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As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well.
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There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance.
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I try not to be too judgmental.
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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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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.
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Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt.
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I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that.
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I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.
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In my normal way of doing things, there's a little bit of 'going native' that takes place, where you're in a world long enough, you can't really help but start to see things in a nuanced, more humanistic way. Just because you're with people and you start to, in general, slightly like the people you're with.
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Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.
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Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
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I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.
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Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.
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I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
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There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.
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I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.
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I don't think I'm afraid of anything.
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I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.