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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. "
Louis Theroux
Islam
Church
Fear
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" I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. "
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" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Space
Always
Art
" When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear. "
Louis Theroux
Meet
Hear
Time
" As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well. "
Louis Theroux
Hope
Well
Top
" I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to. "
Louis Theroux
Think
Career
People
" Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real. "
Louis Theroux
Emotions
Down
Dude
" One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them. "
Louis Theroux
Always
Proactive
Approach
" In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%. "
Louis Theroux
People
Live
White
" 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
" Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America. "
Louis Theroux
Animals
America
Story
" I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind of xenophobic populist strain, then that's what he will do. "
Louis Theroux
Playing
Will
Think
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Think
You
Moral
" Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices. "
Louis Theroux
Keep
People
Animals
" It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst. "
Louis Theroux
Lot
Dealing
DNA
" I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person. "
Louis Theroux
Person
Quite
Am
" I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know. "
Louis Theroux
Vague
Good
Habits
" I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead. "
Louis Theroux
Always
Painting
Teach
" I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know. "
Louis Theroux
Myself
Think
Easy
" You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over. "
Louis Theroux
Say
You
Someone
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Think
I Am
Home
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
People
Misunderstood
Human
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Out
World
Something
" Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be. "
Louis Theroux
Why
Aspire
See
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Think
Ahead
Know
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Man
Glasses
Much
" After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded. "
Louis Theroux
End
Myself
Studying
" 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
" My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks. "
Louis Theroux
Guilty
Got
Lucky
" I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?' "
Louis Theroux
Thinking
Live
I Can
" 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. "
Louis Theroux
Think
People
Way