Louis Theroux Quotes

I love documentaries, I like observing real people.

It's such a rich experience when you enter into a subject from a documentary point of view. It's hard for fiction to compete with that.

HBO is undeniably a leader in meaningful storytelling in a wide array of formats. I'm honored to join the REAL SPORTS team and look forward to continuing my fervor for uncovering unique and impactful stories.

I'm not one of those people who sees documentaries as a stepping stone to doing fiction. I love documentaries and watch tons of documentaries. But, I like fiction films a lot, too.

For whatever reason, I am just very attracted to mystery stories, solving mysteries. I was a huge fan of 'The Jinx.' That's such a satisfying show because it's all... I don't want to give it away to anybody, but it's really amazing.

I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.

I love documentaries. I love the format. I've been doing them for a long time.

'They Walk Among Us' is the work of husband-and-wife team Benjamin and Rosie. In the past, they've covered the Shannon Matthews case and the career of the prisoner known as Charles Bronson.

I am really into crime documentaries.

I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about - police and criminals, the criminal justice system.

'Forensic Files' is amazing! I love it! There were marathons happening all the time in college. That show, because it's always on at night, was always better than any scary movie I could put on, because it was 'real.'

There's good money in true crime, I'm told, and plenty of it lying around, but it's a devil of an art form.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

The thing about documentary is that you don't really choose your subjects: they come and grab you out of your bed.

I want to give Michael Moore a run for his money.

I love documentary because it's alive.

I think documentary filmmaking is a braver way to make films because it's real, and you're really there.

What's great about documentary, it seems to me, is that it can be experimental filmmaking. You have a license to do a lot of diverse things under the umbrella of 'documentary.'

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

'Police Story' had some of the best writing on television, and one reason for that is because most of the scripts were based on real cases.

We have the crime of the century every six months. So for people like me who enjoy, you know, taking these stories and writing about them, the material is endless.

As far as the balance between being a journalist, being an artist, being a storyteller - documentary filmmakers are all three of those things. The balance between them is affected by the film itself, the topic of the film.

I am completely and utterly hooked to all the great shows on A&E and Court TV that are about small town murder.

I've always been interested in how to present something that relates to our reality - which is not really... I don't even know if documentary itself does as good a job. It has its own problems in trying to get at the reality of the situation.

Reality television hasn't killed documentaries, because there are so many great documentaries still being made, but it certainly has changed the landscape. There is this breed of gimmicky documentary that is basically a reality show.