Louis Theroux Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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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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Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.
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Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.
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I like eating food after it's gone off.
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I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.
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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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I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
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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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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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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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Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.