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" 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. "

Louis Theroux

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" Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt. "

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

" 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. "

" As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well. "

" 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. "

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

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

" When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices. "

" 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. "

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

" True believers of Scientology seem to know with utmost certainty that they have found the answer to the deepest riddles of all time - they may or may not be right, but that kind of self-belief is very appealing. "

" 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'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. "

" I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake. "

" I try not to be too judgmental. "

" A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife. "

" In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%. "

" 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. "

" Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme. "