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I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

Charlie Brooker

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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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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.
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What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six stories this time around, so you don't want it to just be the devastating, bleak-em-up.
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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.
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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.
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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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Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.
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I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.
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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.
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[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!
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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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We take things that would have struck us as miraculous five years ago for granted. Like Pokémon Go would have been insane, and now it's just like, Oh, okay.
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You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.
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Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.
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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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Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.
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On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.
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At the other end of the spectrum, George Gideon Oliver King Rameses Osborne, the fourteen-year-old novelty Chancellor and future baronet of Ballentaylor and Ballylemon - a man so posh he probably weeps champagne.
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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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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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In many ways, Big Brother is the present day equivalent of a 1980s Club 18-30 Holiday - flirting, sunbathing, silly little organised games, and lots of people you'd like to remove from the genepool with a cricket bat.
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