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. Louis Theroux Read Quote
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. Louis Theroux Read Quote
The documentary genre, shows like ‘Making a Murderer’ and ‘The Jinx’ on HBO, there’s been a whole raft of long-form docs. Louis Theroux Read Quote
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. Louis Theroux Read Quote
When you don’t have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it’s like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you’re only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband. Louis Theroux Read Quote
Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you’re actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears. Louis Theroux Read Quote
It’s in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst. Louis Theroux Read Quote
