When you don't have access to a subject, and all you have is ex-members and critics, there is this gravitational pull toward telling a certain version of events. Scientology would say this, and they have a point, that it's like doing a portrait of a marriage in which you're only hearing from the ex-wife and not the ex-husband.

Funnily enough, the most danger I felt was when I did a story about exotic animals kept as pets in America.

Prisons and jails, I tend to feel that you're actually safer as a journalist than you might think, certainly more than it appears.

Louis Theroux Quotes