Louis Theroux Quotes
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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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I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
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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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Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org.
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Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.
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I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.
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The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.
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The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.
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I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.
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I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.
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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
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In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.
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Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.
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It's difficult to describe the weirdness of speaking to a man who appears to be perfectly in control of his faculties, who can deliver off-the-cuff repartee, and yet who is actually utterly disconnected from who he is.
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I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way.
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There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
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Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.
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Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices.
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There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.
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I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
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I like eating food after it's gone off.
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A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
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As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.
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We have a double agenda of trying to deliver something exciting that people will talk about and will brighten their day and will amaze people and make us proud to have created an object of beauty. And on the other hand being true to the story.