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" Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally. "
Louis Theroux
Sometimes
Feel
People
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" My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks. "
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" I like eating food after it's gone off. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" As much as the glasses, it's the Englishness and the gangliness. The apparent lack of muscularity... they indicate I'm not a macho man. "
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" I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny. "
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Feel
Elephant
" The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form 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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" I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. "
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Much
" 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. "
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" I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme. "
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Questions
Story
Back
" Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt. "
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Money
Clothes
Care
" 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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Show
Sometimes
You
" Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into. "
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Arguably
Always
Emotional
" When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time. "
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Life
Create
Memories
" 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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Got
Dream
Routine
" I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa. "
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Think
Past
People
" Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television. "
Louis Theroux
Writer
Up
Grew
" 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. "
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Think
I Am
Home
" 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. "
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Beauty
Proud
People
" Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not. "
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Sometimes
Truth
Reflecting
" 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. "
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Family
America
Church
" I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know. "
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Think
Ahead
Know
" There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry. "
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Religion
Monopoly
" L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here. "
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British
Many
Here
" The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough. "
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Too
Trouble
Know
" There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified. "
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Think
You
Moral
" I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer. "
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Idea
Being
" I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident. "
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Polemic
Doing
Comfortable