![]() So if they’re in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.” Louis Therouxģ1. “Alcohol, for those addicted to it, is a kind of infatuation. ![]() Just because you’re with people and you start to in general slightly like the people you’re with.” Louis TherouxĢ9. “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.” Louis Theroux 30. “Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they’re good people. 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 TherouxĢ2. “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. ‘They’re scared to get close to each other. I’m not a matinee idol disguised as a nerd” Louis Theroux 20. “I sometimes get accused of being ‘faux-naïve,’ but for me, it’s really just about getting down to the basics of something.” Louis TherouxĢ1. “It’s an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. The show is laughing at me, adrift in their world, as much as at them. 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. You can make it sound calculated, but it’s pretty much just me.” Louis Therouxġ9. “Weird Weekends set out to discover the genuinely odd in the most ordinary setting. The nakedness, the guilelessness… that’s quite real.” Louis Theroux 15. “I never misrepresent my position – you’ve got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case.” Louis Therouxġ6. “I just follow the subjects I’m interested in.” Louis Therouxġ7. “I’m not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.” Louis Therouxġ8. “People say I’m deceptively unassuming, but that’s the way I go through life. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.” Louis Therouxġ4. “Clearly I’m able to read emotions. I’ve never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.” Louis Therouxġ3. “I don’t like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. 11. “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 Therouxġ2. “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. ![]()
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