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" 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. "

Louis Theroux

Life

Create

Memories

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" Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television. "

Louis Theroux

Writer

Grew

" I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way. "

Louis Theroux

Thought

People

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it. "

" 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. "

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

Louis Theroux

After

Off

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" 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

Everything

Fact

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life. "

" 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. "

" When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband. "

" 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. "

" Some things should remain private. "

" I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling. "

" 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. "

" I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person. "

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

" 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. "

" Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America. "

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