SPOILT FOR CHOICE
Basically, [my television shows] are always about things that I am curious about. We did one about the plastic surgery industry. We did one about the police in Philadelphia. These are quite big ideas. You just sort of try to think about things that will work, that will show a side of life you don't normally see, that I can get involved with. [I want to] talk with people whose choices in some way seem odd or counterintuitive.
The most recent thing we've taped [which aired in Britain earlier this month] is about a drug called crystal meth and a city [Fresno, in California] that's been taken over by it, and the addiction, and so forth. Actually, the city's been destroyed by this drug.
CULTS AND MOBS
To some extent the tone of the programmes and the tone of the material have changed in the 10 or so years I've been doing them. In the old days, it's possible there were people who took offence but by and large the people we featured understood that there was a certain lightness to the tone of the interactions; that I was having fun with the experience of being in that world as much as anything. In the porn one, for example, I went around showing a Polaroid of myself naked.
The Westboro Baptist Church [subject of the 2007 programme The Most Hated Family in America] were fine. They loved it, to be honest with you. They loved the programme, they loved the fact that four or five million people saw the show and a number of people checked their website. You could say almost anything about them, they just want to be talked about.