Home / Quotes / Quote by Charlie Brooker

Quote by Charlie Brooker

“I would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of nuclear war. I was born in 1971, and in the '80s I came to understand that I was inevitably going to be frazzled to death in the nuclear apocalypse.”

Quote by Charlie Brooker

Author

Charlie Brooker

Charlie Brooker is a British broadcaster, born on March 3, 1971. Known for his unique sense of humor and insightful commentary on modern society, Brooker has made significant achievements in television, online media, and publishing. more

You May Also Like

“It's a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of the things that made me really worry about worst-case scenarios. There's something impish and probably somewhat therapeutic about thinking about those things.”

Thinking Looks Made Names Cases Worry Laughing Worst Cheerful Scenarios Barrels Therapeutic Insert Worst Case Scenario

Author:Charlie Brooker

“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.”

Writing Happens Used Black Comedy Worst Effects Mirrors Comic Muscles Plot Worst Things Sitcom Comedy Writing

Author:Charlie Brooker

“"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.”

Stories Social Week Media Conversation Social Media Profile

Author:Charlie Brooker

“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.”

“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.”

People Thinking Book Sometimes Stuff Realizing Military Research Killing Obstacles Combat Pulling Triggers Pulling The Trigger

Author:Charlie Brooker

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

Feels Felt Cracks Episodes

Author:Charlie Brooker

“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.”

Ideas Real Ends Political Turns Black Simple Steps Europe Mirrors Angry Mood Suspects Episodes Monstrous Gaming Gadgets Populism Anti Political

Author:Charlie Brooker

“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.”

Thinking Ideas Saws Marketing No Idea Hoover

Author:Charlie Brooker

“Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a way that you're like, "Wow, I've got to stage an intervention here." He picked up on gaming terminology really quickly. If you say, "Keep practicing holding a pencil and see if you can draw a letter, the alphabet," he understands that if you do that you've unlocked Level Two.”

Ifs Way Years Two Kids Levels Four Stage Draws Letters Wow Four Years Introducing Pencils Intervention Alphabet Gaming Ipads Terminology

Author:Charlie Brooker

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

Knows Kind Different Kids These Days Boredom Different Kinds

Author:Charlie Brooker