Charlie Brooker Quotes - Page 4

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• I actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, "Well, there is one other idea ["National Anthem"]."

  Charlie Brooker

  War, Ideas, Creative

  "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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• "National Anthem" was just a funny idea I'd been knocking about. I initially thought about a beloved celebrity having to do that - and then I watched an episode of 24. In my head, I was writing almost a parody of a 24-style president woken in the middle of the night with a crisis. It seemed more interesting to play it ultrastraight and to have the viewer's initial reaction be one of laughter and disbelief - and just have the whole thing become progressively more uncomfortable.

  Charlie Brooker

  Laughter, Writing, Night

  "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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• I've always had a bad attention span.

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  Attention, Attention Span

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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

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  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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• I grew up in the countryside . But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!

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  Kids, Games, Parent

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

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  Kids, Brave New World, Huxley

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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?"

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  Nice, Kids, Parent

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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.

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  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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• 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.

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  Crazy, Reality, Mirrors

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• My wife made me watch this documentary about the Iraq War, and there was a really powerful moment where they followed some civilian whose family had been killed. This was 5 or 10 minutes of this woman talking, and it was extremely arresting. You realize how you never hear from the person on the receiving end of a war without a reporter stepping in to compartmentalize the story. Usually they're just a few shots at the end of a news report, wailing and screaming at a funeral.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, War, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

  Charlie Brooker

  Kids, Boredom, Different

  "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 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 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.

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  Thinking, Ideas, Marketing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I can worry about anything.

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  Worry, I Can

  Source: www.npr.org

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• On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

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  Real, Hands, Kind

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• What is useful about when there is a sort of pull-out to reveal moment going on is that it actually focuses the mind when you're writing the earlier scenes because you're thinking 'right, how do I? I can only show this amount of the room... I can only show these characters from the waist up because they've all got robot legs!' it's a challenge so it keeps you engaged on some level.

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  Character, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• 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."

  Charlie Brooker

  Years, Insane, Granted

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.

  Charlie Brooker

  Writing, Years, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.

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  Games, Video, Massive

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

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  Writing, People, Might

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

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  Thinking, Technology, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

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  Mirrors, Black, Trying

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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

  Charlie Brooker

  Thinking, People, Looks

  Source: www.npr.org

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