British - Director | May 20, 1970 -
Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.
Louis Theroux
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Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.
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It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.
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Meeting forensic patients for the first time could occasionally be an unnerving experience. They often came across as mild and gentle people, but the details of the crimes were harrowing in the extreme.
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I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
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Some things should remain private.
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There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.
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Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices.
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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.
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There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.
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The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.
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I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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