Louis Theroux Quotes

There's something about the Pacific Northwest, the scale of it, and the fact that not so long ago people came here and died getting here, and then died the first winter they were here. There's this breathtaking beauty, just a little bit of moss on the tree, just this little thread of danger, and the sinister. And I really like that.

July 2. A beautiful day for Labrador. Went ashore and killed nothing, but was pleased with what I saw. The country is so grandly wild and desolate that I am charmed by its wonderful dreariness.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

I want to find something else, unknowable, some place that's not on the map. A real adventure.

From an early age I was very, very fascinated by uncertainty.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

As long as the world continues to be strange and interesting, I still want to take pictures of it.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

I like the unknown. I like mystery.

This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.

All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo.

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

I think we're always intrigued by things we're not familiar with.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

Out here, everything is bigger. You see strange things, and that changes you.

The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It takes away from all my mystery, which, as I've told you before, is the most important thing between a man and a woman.

I like the unknown. That's what Terry Malick has always really liked. He's always looking for the unexpected.

Jeep represents a way of life. It's not just a car.

There is something special about the beauty in the unclear, the ambiguity, the in-between that you can't totally recognise.

When you go into a forest, anything can happen.

When traveling, we continually are 'discovering' what our day will be. We are in a new environment, perhaps a different culture, interacting with strangers who might have different priorities than we ourselves have.

When I was younger, I lived on Hawai'i, in the small town of Kohala. It was beautiful there! There were the trees and rolling green hills. It was beautiful and quaint, but at the same time, I always wanted to just venture out.

I don't care how much you traveled in college, and I don't care what kind of shape you're in. Travel is the one thing you're absolutely not prepared for as a rookie.

I wanted to be like the heroes of the books I read. That's why I wanted to go to the jungle. I wasn't interested in danger from the adrenaline aspect, I was more interested in the romance.