Louis Theroux Quotes

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Louis Theroux

Profession : Director

Birth : May 20, 1970

Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.

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

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When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

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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.

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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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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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The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

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I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.

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It's difficult to describe the weirdness of speaking to a man who appears to be perfectly in control of his faculties, who can deliver off-the-cuff repartee, and yet who is actually utterly disconnected from who he is.

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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.

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

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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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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.

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I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.

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Some things should remain private.

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

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There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.

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The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.

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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.

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