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" 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. "

Louis Theroux

Good

Heroes

People

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Answer

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

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Louis Theroux

Everything

Fact

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" I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer. "

" I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience. "

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

" 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 think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I like eating food after it's gone off. "

Louis Theroux

After

Off

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

" 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

" People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me. "

Louis Theroux

Say

People

" 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. "