Louis Theroux Quotes
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There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
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I try not to be too judgmental.
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I don't think I'm afraid of anything.
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I like eating food after it's gone off.
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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
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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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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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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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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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There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.
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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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One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.
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I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
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A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
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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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The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.
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Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.
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If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.
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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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When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.
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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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Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.
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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.
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I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.