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" I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that. "

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" I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead. "

" My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Some things should remain private. "

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

" I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something. "

" 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. "

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

" The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be. "

" I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident. "

" I think I have a slight fear of intimacy. "

" There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "