Travel Documentary Quotes

I would like to host a show, something like travel or cooking or something like that, something I'm really interested in, and so I'm pitching a couple television shows.

Michael Palin decided to give up on his considerable comedy talents to make those dreadfully tedious travel shows. Have you ever tried to watch one?

The idea behind it did come out of my love for travel shows. I loved them as a little kid and I loved Anthony Bourdain, but I really did want to see one about LGBTQ communities and culture and the specific country that we visit. Of course it is about the joys and the triumphs and the nightlife, but sadly, unfortunately, it's also about the discrimination that people face, because that's the reality.

The most useful information on CNN is when Anthony Bourdain tells me where to eat noodles.

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.

My background is in broadcast television - I used to be a travel host for BBC, Discovery, and National Geographic.

Netflix knew I was going to North Korea and Ethiopia and Iceland. They saw the film and liked it and that was that.

'Stand-Up Planet' was Anthony Bourdain-meets-stand-up comedy.

I'd like to make documentaries. Way-out documentaries. I'd like to do one on a tour of the U.S.