Top 6 Quotes by Louis Theroux

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

Writing, Character, World

Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.111, Da Capo Press

Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. To me, it's almost a privilege to be welcomed into these communities and to shine a light on them and, maybe, through my enthusiasm, to get people to reveal more of themselves than they may have intended. The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. I don't have to play up that stuff. I'm not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd

Louis Theroux

Weekend, Idols, Play

It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

Louis Theroux

Lonely, Sleep, People

Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.30, Da Capo Press

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs. It's not as though you do that enough and then graduate - you sort of need to make a conscious decision to work in a different way.

Louis Theroux

Dream, Decision, Different

"Louis Theroux discusses My Scientology Movie, his first feature film". Interview with John Nugent, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.

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

Long, People, World

Source: www.empireonline.com

The fact is that you can be a Nazi living in a little trailer in the middle of Montana and as awful as everything you stand for is, you're basically an angry guy in a shack. Scientology, on the other hand, is a multi-billion dollar institution with tentacles that reach into lots of countries. I don't think it's as powerful as many people think it is, but compared to the sorts of people I've dealt with, it is a force to be reckoned with. It has global influence and very very deep pockets.

Louis Theroux

Country, Powerful, Thinking

"Louis Theroux discusses My Scientology Movie, his first feature film". Interview with John Nugent, www.empireonline.com. October 3, 2016.