Charlie Brooker Quotes - Page 3

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• If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

  Charlie Brooker

  Glasses, Desks, Queues

  "Supposing... It's Time to Smother Romance in Its Sleep". www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2006.

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• I pitched Jay Hunt the opening scene (prime minister, middle of the night, he's woken up...). She paused, and then she laughed. She was very intrigued and all that, and then she said, "Does it have to be a pig?" So we went through various options: Could it be a supermarket frozen chicken? A giant wheel of cheese? A pig seemed just the right level of absurd, but then when he walks in and there's actually a pig there, it's awful.

  Charlie Brooker

  Night, Pigs, Cheese

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• Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.

  Charlie Brooker

  Military, War, Men

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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

  Charlie Brooker

  Often Is, Scripts, Directors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In comedy writing, a sitcom plot is basically the same thing: What's the worst thing that could happen? But you're playing it for comic effect. It's a similar muscle being used with Black Mirror.

  Charlie Brooker

  Writing, Mirrors, Black

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Am I living in a simulation?

  Charlie Brooker

  Simulation

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.

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  Wish, Way, Boxes

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• In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.

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  Brother, Silly, Holiday

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “Dawn of the Dumb”, p.197, Faber & Faber

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• A sort of angry populism here in the UK and across Europe, a sort of anti-political mood and what then steps into that place? In one episode [of Black Mirror] you won't have seen, there's a very simple gaming gadget that turns out to be a monstrous idea, which I suspect we will end up doing for real.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Simple, Mirrors

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, Mirrors, Black

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

  Charlie Brooker

  Fall, Smartphones, Two

  Charlie Brooker (2012). “I Can Make You Hate”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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• I've instinctively hated the Tories since birth.

  Charlie Brooker

  Birth, Hated

  "David Cameron is like a hollow Easter egg, with no bag of sweets inside. He's nothing. He's no one" by Charlie Brooker, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2007.

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

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  Skins, Backbone

  Charlie Brooker (2009). “The Hell of it All”, p.134, Faber & Faber

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

  Charlie Brooker

  Eye, Bells, Association

  "Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe", Season 4, Episode 1, September 25, 2007.

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• 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.

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, Sound, Negative

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.

  Charlie Brooker

  Technology, Worry, Fear Of The Future

  "'Black Mirror' Creator Dramatizes Our Worst Nightmares About Technology". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 20, 2016.

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• I can worry about anything.

  Charlie Brooker

  Worry, I Can

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, Ideas, Marketing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.

  Charlie Brooker

  Crazy, Reality, Mirrors

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• "Be Right Back," in which Hayley Atwell brings Domhnall Gleeson back from the dead using his social-media profile, sprang out of an unrelated conversation. Other stories you thrash away at for weeks and weeks.

  Charlie Brooker

  Media, Stories, Week

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

  Charlie Brooker

  Kids, Brave New World, Huxley

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

  Charlie Brooker

  Reading, Attention, Fiction

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.

  Charlie Brooker

  Military, Book, Thinking

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• 'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.

  Charlie Brooker

  Cracks, Episodes, Feels

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [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?"

  Charlie Brooker

  Nice, Kids, Parent

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