“You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.”

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

“Not counting the brand of Sunni Islam practised by the so-called Islamic State, there is probably no religion in the world that comes in for more flak than Scientology.”

“There is no religion that has a monopoly on bigotry.”

“I think people are so immersed in the anti-Scientology mindset by consuming tabloid media and stories about space aliens. It's baffling. When I say I want to see a more positive side of the church,...”

“It's in the DNA of Scientology that they don't trust journalists.”

“A photographic portrait is a picture of someone who knows he is being photographed, and what he does with this knowledge is as much a part of the photograph as what he's wearing or how he looks.”

“There is no second place for doing first rate work.”

“You can have everything you want if you can put your heart and soul into everything you do.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”