Louis Theroux Quotes

Louis Theroux
Louis Theroux
British Director
Born: May 20, 1970
About Being Me People Think You
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I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling. Louis Theroux
Confused World Bit About Genuinely Am Little Little Bit
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.' Louis Theroux
Angry You People Sometimes Will Think Thinking Meet Machiavelli Say Unassuming Some Never Disarm Know Sort Polite How Doing Very Persona Get Create Who Spectacles
I've always seen TV as... it didn't occupy the same rarefied space as literature, but it's art you can use day to day. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning. Louis Theroux
Art Day You Learning Space Seen Hung Hierarchy TV Rarefied Never Day-To-Day Occupy Always Been Up Same Where Literature Use Figures
After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded. Louis Theroux
Myself Amazing Videos YouTube Critics Studying Countless Journalists Like Felt Been Years Subject End After Receiving Watching Filming
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. Louis Theroux
Man Control Difficult Deliver Faculties He Perfectly Weirdness Disconnected Repartee His Speaking Who Describe Appears Actually Utterly
I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback. Louis Theroux
Fear Feel Going Pub
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. Louis Theroux
Day People Will Beauty Other Object About Something Deliver Exciting True Talk Make Proud Amaze Hand Trying Being Story Double Agenda Us Created Brighten
There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry. Louis Theroux
Religion Monopoly
I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it. Louis Theroux
Life My Life Few Dipping Parties Massively Been Fun
You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over. Louis Theroux
You Eyes Job Relatively Say See Someone Over Talk Documentaries Make Just Famous They Say
I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident. Louis Theroux
Polemic Comfortable Doing Being
I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme. Louis Theroux
Feeling Holding Difficult Approach Back Way More Feel Like Makes Questions Story Transparent Satisfying Programme
I never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case. Louis Theroux
You Strong Be Strong Argument Enough Marshal Case Never Make Got Position
Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into. Louis Theroux
Life Side Arguably Emotional Always
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. Louis Theroux
Good People Events Heroes Good People Own Crisis Out Feel Most Understandable Version Urge Lives Set
Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television. Louis Theroux
Television About Writer Never Household Him Although Up Grew Disparaging Dad Found
I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake. Louis Theroux
Own Reputation Documentary Maker Sake Trying Acquire Serious
I like eating food after it's gone off. Louis Theroux
Food Gone Eating Like Off After
I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries. Louis Theroux
Documentaries Make Clues Necessarily
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same. Louis Theroux
Will Become Stays Superpower Empires Come Come And Go Go Same Blue Soviet Soviet Union China Union Peter
As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well. Louis Theroux
Hope Broadcaster Top Gear New Well Does Really Incarnation Chris
I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa. Louis Theroux
Positive Saying People Space Alien Church Past Think Side Mindset Say Immersed See Tabloid About More Consuming Cruise Baffling Headlines Talk Jumping Get Want Stories Tom Tom Cruise Media Sofa
Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org. Louis Theroux
Time Other Religions Alleged Least Doing Same Done Same Time Different Sea Things
I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer. Louis Theroux
Writer Idea Attracted Always Repelled Being
I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it. Louis Theroux
Writing Father Saw Valued Admired Both He How How Much His Much
My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks. Louis Theroux
Fear Guilty Could Got Doing Lot Just Anyone Breaks Lucky
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