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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. "
Louis Theroux
Keep
People
Animals
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" I am always drawn to things that feel different to what I would experience at home: things that offer a combination of unfamiliarity and a sort of bleak glamour. I think the outback has that. "
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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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" I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake. "
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" I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny. "
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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 think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there's Trump supporters out there who aren't even revealing themselves as such. For me, that's a scary prospect because I think he'd be a disastrous president. "
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" I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know. "
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" I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead. "
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" I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries. "
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" I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know. "
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Myself
Think
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" 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. "
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Camera
Experience
You
" My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks. "
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Got
Lucky
" There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life. "
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Life
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Your
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Family
America
Church
" I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to. "
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Career
People
" I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. "
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" 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. "
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" As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well. "
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Top
" 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. "
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Think
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Some things should remain private. "
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Some
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