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I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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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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I think more and more people became aware that social media was starting to feel like a more toxic space. And, I mean - quite a lot of incidents of people getting very, very angry about all kinds of things and attacking people.
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In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.
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Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.
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Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.
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I did once leave one of [my kid] watching something on YouTube, something completely innocuous, and I went out of the room and the algorithm kept playing the next thing and the next thing and somehow worked its way around to showing him the trailer for John Carpenter's The Thing - at which point I walked back in. He wasn't happy.
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I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.
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My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.
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I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, This room's quite rectangular, isn't it? I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels
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I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.
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I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.
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My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.
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I think overseas viewers assume that Black Mirror is written by the Unabomber, essentially - a Ludd­ite, technology-hating, angry old man waving his fist at the App Store.
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I really don't want to sound like overly negative or critical of the Internet in general because I'm actually really quite pro-technology.
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Hi-def is merely the latest in a string of evolutional leaps that have transformed the way we sit slumped in front of a box wishing we were dead.
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I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.
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I can worry about anything.
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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.
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You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.
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If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?
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