Charlie Brooker Quotes
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If you're living in a dystopia, you don't necessarily want to look at another one.
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I loved 'Get Out.'
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If I ran a national burger franchise - which I don't - I'd make it a rule that no two customers can be greeted with precisely the same words and that every third customer must be grossly insulted as a matter of course. Just to keep the atmosphere nice and lively. And to keep the staff laughing.
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Videogames are probably my first love.
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Online, you play at being yourself.
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I've got no attention span.
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Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.
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Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.'16
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I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.
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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.
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I do think that it's a dysfunctional relationship between columnists and commentators, because they both seem to hate each other, like a terrible marriage.
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I'm quite hardcore on this. I think every psychic and medium in this country belongs in prison. Even the ones demented enough to believe in what they're doing. In fact, especially them. Give them windowless cells and make them crap in buckets.
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I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.
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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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My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.
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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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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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I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
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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.
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Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.
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Everyone's opened a drawer and been startled by the unexpected discovery of an old mobile phone that now resembles an outsized pantomime prop. To think you used to be impressed by this clunky breezeblock. You were like a caveman gawping at a yo-yo.
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Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.
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Apple excels at taking existing concepts - computers, MP3 players, conceit - and carefully streamlining them into glistening ergonomic chunks of concentrated aspiration.
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What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.