A biography for Louis Therouxhasn’t been written yet.
“Some things should remain private.”
“When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.”
“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.”
“Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.”
“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.”
“I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.”
“I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.”
“Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.”
“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.”
“There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.”
“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.”
“People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.”
“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.”
“Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs!”
“L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.”
“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.”
“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.”