Words matter. These are the best Charlie Brooker Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I’m not anti-technology at all, really.
Youth fare aside, I have generally always been interested in what’s going on culturally.
What I disliked most about working as a shop assistant wasn’t the occasional snooty customer or the shop or the hours, but the way people reacted when I told them I was a shop assistant – their automatic assumption that I didn’t enjoy it.
The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.
The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.
If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.
Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday’s range obsolete on a whim.
People tend to think I’m a lot more earnest than I am.
We’re inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I’d bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.
Videogames are probably my first love.
With ‘Hang the DJ,’ I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for ‘Black Mirror.’
Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.
I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and… it felt hard to delete the name.
‘MasterChef’ delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease.
The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story or an animated cartoon. This means that no matter how soberly the financial experts dress, no matter how dry their language, the economy they worship can only ever be as plausible as an episode of ‘SpongeBob SquarePants.’
Hopefully, some supervillain threat will come down, and we will have to unite as a species and fire our nukes into the sun or something.
I liked ‘Making A Murderer,’ ‘Master of None.’ ‘Stranger Things’ I watched along with everyone else in the world. ‘Narcos,’ I really liked ‘Narcos’ a lot.
We don’t sit down and look at the news pages and think, ‘How could we do an episode about that?’
If there’s no point, then there’s no point giving up.
If someone doesn’t respond to a phone call, I think they’ve died.
We take miracles for granted on a daily basis.
I’ve scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it’s too easy to get dragged into an argument.
Ever since about 1998, when humankind began fast-forwarding through the gradually-unfolding history of progress, like someone impatiently zipping through a YouTube clip in search of the best bits, we’ve grown accustomed to machines veering from essential to obsolete in the blink of a trimester.
Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It’s ‘Pokemon Go’ for the heart.
The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They’re obscene to the point of satire.
With Boris Johnson, you don’t think of him as a politician, oddly. You think of him as a media personality because he’s a comic character. He’s basically Homer Simpson. That makes him strangely bullet-proof.
At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
I’ve got a phobia about throwing up.
‘The Twilight Zone’ was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.
I loved ‘Get Out.’
The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.
All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren’t they?
I remember when I realised, as a child, ‘That stuff on the TV about nuclear bombs is real! Why isn’t everyone running around shouting ‘Aaarrgghh’? Why are people still buying bicycle clips?’
I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
If you’re living in a dystopia, you don’t necessarily want to look at another one.
People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there’s more of that than ever. It’s just that it’s online.
It must be awful, being a homophobe.
Nothing happens in cricket, ever. Even the highlights resemble a freeze frame.
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like ‘Tales of the Unexpected,’ ‘Hammer House of Horror,’ ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘Alfred Hitchcock Presents.’
I’m extremely neurotic; it’s the way my brain is built.
I like technology, but ‘Black Mirror’ is more what the consequences are, and it doesn’t tend to be about technology itself: it tends to be how we use or misuse it. We’ve not really thought through the consequences of it.
I can’t imagine voluntarily standing beside an F1 track in the rain, watching motorised wedges plastered in corporate decals zooming past at 500mph.
Rather than setting yourself a New Year’s resolution, why not simply pick a reason for hating yourself for the next 365 days? Takes less time, and it’s easier to stick to.
Banking, as far as I can tell, seems to be almost as precise a science as using a slot machine. You either blindly hope for the best, delude yourself into thinking you’ve worked out a system, or open it up when no one’s looking and rig the settings so it’ll pay out illegally.
Calling Batman ‘the Dark Knight’ is like calling Papa Smurf ‘the Blue Patriarch’:you’re not fooling anyone.
My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.
I’ve never lost that freelance mentality. You can’t take a holiday because you’re worried the work will dry up.
People always assume I went to public school, which I didn’t, so that immediately puts me somewhere.
I’m looking forward to the ‘Twilight Zone’ from Jordan Peele… if anyone’s gonna reboot the ‘Twilight Zone,’ then there’s the man to do it.
I haven’t always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.
When you meet people you’ve interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.
When a monk takes a vow of silence, is he still allowed to post messages on the Internet? Chances are God won’t find out. Being ancient, God probably can’t work computers. He holds the mouse gingerly, like it’s made of fine china.
‘MasterChef”s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day’s fruitless existence.
Short of finding a place on the witness protection programme, you don’t get many opportunities to completely reinvent your life. Going to university changes that. Away from home, away from parents, away from anyone who remembers you from school, you can pretend to be far cooler and more experienced than you are.
God, people say ‘Black Mirror’ was horrible – it’s nothing compared to the stuff that happens in ‘Grimms’ Fairy Tales.’ It’s mind-bending.
Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they’re doing for the money.
I think the problem we have as apes is we’re asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.
I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing ‘A Touch of Cloth.’
Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.
