Louis Theroux Quotes
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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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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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The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.
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A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
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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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I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
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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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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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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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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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Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.
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I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
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I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.
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I don't think I'm afraid of anything.
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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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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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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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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 misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case.
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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'm following my interests, and there's something about investigating the world and creating a watchable, entertaining programme out of it that is deeply satisfying.
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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.