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" Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears. "
Louis Theroux
Feel
You
Think
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" Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into. "
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" 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. "
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" One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them. "
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" Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices. "
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" Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.' "
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Think
People
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Strong
Argument
" If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent. "
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Me
" I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around. "
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World
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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. "
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" 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. "
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