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" Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same. "

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" One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them. "

" As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well. "

" I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience. "

" I like eating food after it's gone off. "

" There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions. "

" A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife. "

" I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning. "

" I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs. "

" I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know. "

" I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know. "

" You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over. "

" It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists. "

" Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be. "

" 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. "

" In my normal way of doing things, there's a little bit of 'going native' that takes place, where you're in a world long enough, you can't really help but start to see things in a nuanced, more humanistic way. Just because you're with people and you start to, in general, slightly like the people you're with. "

" 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. "

" I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me. "

" People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me. "

" Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real. "

" True believers of Scientology seem to know with utmost certainty that they have found the answer to the deepest riddles of all time - they may or may not be right, but that kind of self-belief is very appealing. "

" 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. "

" Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology. "

" There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry. "

" I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person. "

" I think I have a slight fear of intimacy. "

" There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life. "

" I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth. "

" There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral. "

" 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. "

" The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields. "