Charlie Brooker Quotes

My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.

Technology is a global thing and wherever you go, people are prodding the same devices and worrying in the same way and have had their lives slightly altered in the same way.

Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.

We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, "Oh, okay."

Am I living in a simulation?

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.

I've always had a bad attention span.

I think somebody's marketing a thing that Hoovers up your Twitter and it will continue tweeting for you after you're dead. I have no idea whether they saw "Be Right Back" or not.

[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And you go, "Well, 'cause it's better?"

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.

Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].

One of life's sorest tragedies is that the people who brim with confidence are always the wrong people.

...we spend more time gazing at luminous screens than into the eyes of our loved ones.

If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that "says something" about your personality, don't bother. You don't have a personality. A mental illness, maybe - but not a personality.