A biography for Louis Therouxhasn’t been written yet.
“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%.”
“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.”
“When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them.”
“I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.”
“Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.”
“Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.”
“Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.”
“I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.”
“I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.”
“There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.”
“The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.”
“One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.”
“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.”
“The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.”
“I don't think I'm afraid of anything.”
“Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.”
“All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.”