Sometimes you shoot for 40 or 50 hours for a one-hour show, and you have to make some very hard choices.
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.
There's always a negotiation that goes on to persuade people we are coming to the subject with an open mind but without surrendering too many pawns. We don't want to misrepresent the fact that we will draw our own conclusions.
There have been times when I've felt inappropriately emotional. I remember making 'The Most Hated Family in America' about the Westboro Baptist Church, and being on the way to a funeral of a U.S. soldier with the Phelps family; they were going to picket the funeral.
I'm not that comfortable doing polemic or being strident.
The thing is, I have never been that confident, and, um, I have a lot of self-doubt, and I had never - I don't think I ever would have consciously chosen to be a television presenter.
One of the things I have always enjoyed about Scientology is their proactive approach to journalists who are covering them.
I'm not pugnacious or argumentative. I'd probably feel fear going into a pub in the Outback.
I've discovered I am quite a puritanical person.
The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.
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.
I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.
The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.
True believers of Scientology seem to know with utmost certainty that they have found the answer to the deepest riddles of all time - they may or may not be right, but that kind of self-belief is very appealing.
I don't go around saturated in guilt or anything like that. I do worry about things quite a lot, but I don't feel as though I am a bad person.
For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.
Do I care about clothes and stuff? Not much. It's a bit sick, isn't it, people spending all that money on clothes? I'm too stingy. I wouldn't pay £100 for a shirt.
People say I'm deceptively unassuming, but that's the way I go through life. I'm not flash. You can make it sound calculated, but it's pretty much just me.
I've got an interest in Zimbabwe. I spent a few months there before uni, so I'd like to get back to that.
I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.
