Louis Theroux

“I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.”

“I never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.”

“I like eating food after it's gone off.”

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

“Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.”

“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.”

“It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.”

“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 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.”

“I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.”

“'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.”

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

“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.”