Louis Theroux Quotes
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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've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
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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 is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
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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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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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There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.
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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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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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Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.
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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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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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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 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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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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Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.
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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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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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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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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 just follow the subjects I'm interested in.