LOUIS THEROUX

I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.

L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.

You can say, 'I am a poet, rock-climbing shaman, and my name is Hiawatha Moonbeam,' and people in America will say, 'Hey, that's great. All power to you, man'.

I think Donald Trump's had a pattern of leaping on the bandwagon of anything that he feels will further his candidacy, and if that means sowing more fear and paranoia and playing into a kind of xenophobic populist strain, then that's what he will do.

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.

I never want to feel more than the viewers. I'm not trying to be an automaton. It's like when you see people laughing on camera, and you don't find it funny as a viewer - it's an offputting experience.

The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.

I am always drawn to things that feel different to what I would experience at home: things that offer a combination of unfamiliarity and a sort of bleak glamour. I think the outback has that.

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 just follow the subjects I'm interested in.

I never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case.

I don't feel that as human beings we have an obligation to dislike someone based on their beliefs, and it's OK to have a human reaction to someone even if you feel what they do is hideous and objectionable. You can still enjoy their company and find them interesting to be around.

If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.

I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.

I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.

Some things should remain private.

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

When you're in your 40s, you become more conscious of life being of limited duration and that you need to create memories and go on little adventures from time to time.

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.

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

Although my dad's a writer, we grew up in a telly-watching household. I never found him disparaging about television.

There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.

Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs!

I've always slightly harboured a dream of making a film, a documentary feature. Somehow, I just got into a way of working a routine of making TV docs.

As much as the glasses, it's the Englishness and the gangliness. The apparent lack of muscularity... they indicate I'm not a macho man.