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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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" 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. "

Louis Theroux

Man

Glasses

Much

" L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here. "

" Some things should remain private. "

" 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. "

" All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational. "

" The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'. "

" 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. "

Louis Theroux

Thought

People

" 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. "

" When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear. "

" The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Louis Theroux

Said

Answer

" I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something. "

Louis Theroux

Basics

Down

" 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'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback. "

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

" Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America. "

" 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. "

Louis Theroux

Say

People

" Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television. "

Louis Theroux

Writer

Grew

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

Louis Theroux

Religion

Monopoly

" 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'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries. "

" It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst. "

" 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. "

" Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not. "

" I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead. "