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.
I think of myself as being quite affable, approachable, fairly easy to get to know.
I am genuinely a bit confused about the world, a little bit bumbling.
I feel like, if there's an elephant in the room, I'd really like to start off by introducing the elephant in the room. And sometimes it's funny.
The many ways of getting content for free have slashed the profits of the professionals in their respective fields.
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.
I sometimes get accused of being 'faux-naive,' but for me, it's really just about getting down to the basics of something.
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.
I think what I'm good at is getting to know people and trying to build a relationship over a few weeks and trying to get to the truth.
There are fear mongers who talk about Islam as somehow it is an incubator of hate... remember Christians, like the Westboro Baptist Church, are just as capable of promoting intolerance.
When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.
After studying the subject for years, watching countless YouTube videos of Scientology handlers filming critics and journalists, it felt amazing to be on the receiving end myself: I felt like I'd been blooded.
I didn't think, 'I'd really like to work in TV; maybe I could carve out a niche where I talk to people who are somehow involved in marginal or difficult lifestyles... ' It was something I gravitated to very naturally as a subject area, almost instinctively, and somehow turned into a TV career without meaning to.
