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" 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. "

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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. "

Louis Theroux

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" 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. "

" I just follow the subjects I'm interested in. "

" Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears. "

" I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom. "

" 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. "

" There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices. "

" I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Louis Theroux

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" Some things should remain private. "

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