Charlie Brooker Quotes
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It's a rum state of affairs when you feel like punching a jar of mayonnaise in the face.
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I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.
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'MasterChef''s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence.
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I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.
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When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.
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There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.
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At first glance, My Super Sweet 16 appears to be a sugary bit of reality drizzle about some irritating American brats, but the more you watch it the more you realize it’s actually a stonehearted exposé of everything that’s wrong with our faltering so-called civilization.
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I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
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I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.
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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.
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I loved 'Get Out.'
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I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.
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He could probably make you a cloud sandwich if you asked. Or a blancmange made of numbers.
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The upper classes really shouldn't open their mouths on television. Whatever it is they're saying, all your brain actually hears is 'Tra la la, I live in a bubble, tra la la, murder a fox, tra la la, Conde Nast Traveller, tra la la, Kensington High Street, tra la la.' They should know their place and keep quiet.
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It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.
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Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.
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Actually, I think this might be an Al-Qaeda recruitment film.
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The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.
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Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.
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Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.
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All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?
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Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.
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Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.
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When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.