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" 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. "

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

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

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

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" Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

Louis Theroux

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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" 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. "

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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. "

" Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into. "

" 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. "

" I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback. "