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I try not to be too judgmental.
I like eating food after it's gone off.
I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.
I just follow the subjects I'm interested in.
I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
When interviews are too cosy, I don't enjoy them.
All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.
There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.
A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.
Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.
I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.
It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.
I'm not necessarily scanning for clues when I make documentaries.
I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.
I both admired my father and his writing, and I saw how much he valued it.
There is no shame is being ambivalent about almost everything in your life.
I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.
I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know.
I'm not trying to acquire a reputation as serious documentary maker for its own sake.
Arguably, there's an emotional side of life that I'm not always completely plugged into.
I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback.
I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.
L.A. is the opposite of Britain in a lot of respects, and that's what draws so many British people here.
Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.
As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well.
I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that.
Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.
My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.
I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.
I never misrepresent my position - you've got to be strong enough to make the argument and marshal the case.
Celebrity is quite a fraught word. It is not something I aspire to, but I can certainly see why it could be.
I tell people I live in Harlesden in north-west London, and I can see them thinking, 'Why do you live there?'
The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.
The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.
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.
Empires will come and go. The Soviet Union collapses; China can become a superpower, but 'Blue Peter' stays the same.
Look after your body, because I'm 44, and things are happening that I never dreamed of - like bad joints and man boobs!
The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.
'Cunnamulla' is a beautifully bleak portrait of a lonely town in which people are leading lives of sort of quiet desperation.
I don't like watching things where I think the people onscreen are ahead of me or assuming I know something that I don't know.
Sometimes I feel a bit socially disconnected in terms of being a little bit gullible about how people interrelate emotionally.
Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.
In west London where I live, white people are a minority. In the area I am in, which is the borough of Brent, whites are less than 50%.
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.
I would love to make a film in the outback or in Papua New Guinea, in Port Moresby. I know that it's not in Australia, but it's not too far.