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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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" 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 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. "

" Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?' "

" I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind of xenophobic populist strain, then that's what he will do. "

" 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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" 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. "

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

" I don't think I'm afraid of anything. "

" 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. "

" For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share. "

" Some things should remain private. "

" I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. "