Quotes by Louis Theroux

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.

When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. Its baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all Im saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.

When you dont 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 its like doing a portrait of a marriage in which youre only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.

Its in the DNA of Scientology that they dont trust journalists.

Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.

I feel like, if theres an elephant in the room, Id really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes its funny.