Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices.

It is important to note that most of the patients in Ohio's mental health facilities have never committed crimes. They are institutionalised because they have lost touch with reality and are having problems functioning unaided in the community.

Reflecting the truth sounds easy, but sometimes it's not.

As a father of two children, I am used to seeing kids in the midst of a five-alarm meltdown over the choice of DVD or the necessity of broccoli.

A lot of money could be saved if we ate urban wildlife.

I've always enjoyed painting, but I went to teach in schools in Zimbabwe instead.

The trouble is, I just don't know if I'm too human or not human enough.

It's in the DNA of all the shows that I have done that are about people that are dealing with very stressful situations that are giving them a lot of angst.

When it was time to meet a chimpanzee, I got very, very anxious because they have the strength of ten men, so I hear.

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

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.

The documentary genre, shows like 'Making a Murderer' and 'The Jinx' on HBO, there's been a whole raft of long-form docs.

I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.

I don't think I'm afraid of anything.

If I actually invited someone to make a documentary about me, and I said, 'Anything goes', and then I refused to answer any questions, that would be inconsistent.

I try not to be too judgmental.

In the past, I've tried to show the human side of people involved in stigmatised or misunderstood lifestyles. I've tried to resist easy judgments and not pander to prejudices.

My guilty fear is that what I'm doing, probably anyone could do. And that I just got a lot of lucky breaks.

I am genuinely slightly vague and chaotic in my habits. For good or ill, you know.

Sometimes people think I'm sort of a Machiavelli who is thinking, 'How can I disarm people? I know: I'll create a persona; I'll get some spectacles, and when I meet you, I'll say, 'How are you doing?' And I will be very unassuming and polite and never get angry.'

I was always attracted and repelled by the idea of being a writer.

I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.

All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.

As a BBC broadcaster, I really do hope that the new incarnation of 'Top Gear' with Chris Evans does well.