Author Profile
Louis Theroux
1970 • British • Director
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesAs a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well.— Louis Theroux
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.— Louis Theroux
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. I've never been hung up on where it figures in the hierarchy of learning.— Louis Theroux
Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.— Louis Theroux
Most people feel that they are the heroes of their own lives and that they're good people. So if they're in a crisis, they feel an understandable urge to set out their own version of events.— Louis Theroux
Clearly I'm able to read emotions. But I do feel... What is it? Awkwardness. I'm not a slick dude. That's what it comes down to. The nakedness, the guilelessness... that's quite real.— Louis Theroux
Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.— Louis Theroux
Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.— Louis Theroux