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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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 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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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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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 try not to be too judgmental.
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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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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'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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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 both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.
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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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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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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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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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I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.
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As much as the glasses, it's the Englishness and the gangliness. The apparent lack of muscularity... they indicate I'm not a macho man.
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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.
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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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There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.
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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 am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.