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" 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. "

Louis Theroux

Out

World

Something

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Louis Theroux

Religion

Monopoly

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

" 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. "

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

" It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community. "

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

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

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

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

" After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded. "

" 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'. "

" Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter. "

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

" I think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there's Trump supporters out there who aren't even revealing themselves as such. For me, that's a scary prospect because I think he'd be a disastrous president. "

Louis Theroux

President

Scary

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Louis Theroux

Everything

Fact