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" I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. "
Louis Theroux
Father
Writing
Much
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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
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Camera
Experience
You
" I think I have a slight fear of intimacy. "
Louis Theroux
I Think
Intimacy
Fear
" I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries. "
Louis Theroux
Necessarily
Make
Clues
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Who
Control
Describe
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
I Am
Choice
Seeing
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Brand
World
Religion
" When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear. "
Louis Theroux
Meet
Hear
Time
" The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough. "
Louis Theroux
Too
Trouble
Know
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Try
You
Need
" I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far. "
Louis Theroux
Know
New
Australia
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Start
Feel
Elephant
" I try not to be too judgmental. "
Louis Theroux
Try
Too
Judgmental
" I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?' "
Louis Theroux
Thinking
Live
I Can
" Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not. "
Louis Theroux
Sometimes
Truth
Reflecting
" One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them. "
Louis Theroux
Always
Proactive
Approach
" I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around. "
Louis Theroux
Feel
You
Interesting
" I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know. "
Louis Theroux
Vague
Good
Habits
" 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
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Beauty
Proud
People
" I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme. "
Louis Theroux
Questions
Story
Back
" A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife. "
Louis Theroux
Money
Wildlife
Urban
" I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling. "
Louis Theroux
World
I Am
Little
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Think
Ahead
Know
" I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer. "
Louis Theroux
Writer
Idea
Being
" I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know. "
Louis Theroux
Myself
Think
Easy
" There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified. "
Louis Theroux
Think
You
Moral
" When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them. "
Louis Theroux
Them
Interviews
Enjoy
" I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake. "
Louis Theroux
Maker
Own
Reputation
" I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it. "
Louis Theroux
Been
Few
Fun