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 Read Quote
Cunnamulla’ is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation. Louis Theroux Read Quote
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. Louis Theroux Read Quote
I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way. Louis Theroux Read Quote
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. Louis Theroux Read Quote
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. Louis Theroux Read Quote
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. Louis Theroux Read Quote
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. Louis Theroux Read Quote
For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That’s fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don’t really share. Louis Theroux Read Quote
I think he could win, absolutely. I think he could win because there’s Trump supporters out there who aren’t even revealing themselves as such. For me, that’s a scary prospect because I think he’d be a disastrous president. Louis Theroux Read Quote
