Quotes by Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker

“Proper work” usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you’d gleefully club to death with a bull’s knee if only it were legal to do so.

Hate

People

Tasks

[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?”

Kids

Nice

Parent

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

Brave New World

Huxley

Kids

Am I living in a simulation?

Simulation

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.

Crazy

Mirrors

Reality

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.

Association

Bells

Eye

Creationists reject Darwin’s theory of evolution on the grounds that it is “just a theory”. This is a valid criticism: evolution is indeed merely “a theory”, albeit one with ten billion times more credence than the theory of creationism – although, to be fair, the theory of creationism is more than just a theory. It’s also a fairy story. And children love fairy stories, which is presumably why so many creationists are keen to have their whimsical gibberish taught in schools.

Children

Fairy Stories

School

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

Circles

Crush

Self

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”].”

Creative

Ideas

War

I am neurotic, and I’m a worrier.

Neurotic

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Army

Association

Bells

Birth

Black

Blow

Brave New World

Brother

Cases

Casting

Character

Children

Circles

Clubs

Crazy

Creative

Crush

Cutting

Destiny

Different

Doors

Empathy

Eye

Fairy Stories

Fear Of The Future

Feelings

Fire

Firsts

Fun

Games

Gone

Grandparent

Granted

Hands

Hate

Hated

Holiday

Huxley

I Can

Ideas

Idiot

Insane

Ironic

Kids

Laughing

Letters

Massive

Men

Might

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Quotes by Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker

“Proper work” usually involves performing a task you hate on behalf of people you’d gleefully club to death with a bull’s knee if only it were legal to do so.

[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?”

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

Am I living in a simulation?

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.

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.

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

I am neurotic, and I’m a worrier.

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