Quote

I've always had a bad attention span.

Charlie Brooker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
Broadcaster
Comedian
Journalist
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Television Presenter
Television Producer
Charlton Charlie Brooker
Attention
Always
Span

More quotes by Charlie Brooker

Image
I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.
Charlie Brooker
Image
If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?
Charlie Brooker
Image
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.
Charlie Brooker
Image
Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.
Charlie Brooker
Image
I tried to be all intellectual and erudite and with others I'd just swear and curse and be an idiot. And suddenly, when they're all in one space, I don't know who I am.
Charlie Brooker
Image
I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.
Charlie Brooker
Image
My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.
Charlie Brooker
Image
Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.
Charlie Brooker
Image
Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.
Charlie Brooker
Image
The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.
Charlie Brooker
Image
'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.
Charlie Brooker
Image
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.
Charlie Brooker
Image
Men Against Jive is a brilliant title! That's a military story, that's a difficult one to explain really because that's sort of a war... it's not just a war story.
Charlie Brooker
Image
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.
Charlie Brooker
Image
I could worry that I'm going to bleed to death, you know, from cutting my finger on a sandwich packet, you know, if I sort of open a sandwich.
Charlie Brooker
Image
[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?
Charlie Brooker
Image
In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.
Charlie Brooker
Image
[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.
Charlie Brooker
Image
I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.
Charlie Brooker
Image
That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.
Charlie Brooker