British - Director | May 20, 1970 -
I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
Louis Theroux
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As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well.
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It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.
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I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church, all I'm saying is I want to get past these headlines that talk about aliens and Tom Cruise jumping on a sofa.
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All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.
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Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org.
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I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.
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I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
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I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.
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Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'
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I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.
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My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.
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