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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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Charlie Brooker
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: March 3
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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 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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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.
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In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.
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What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.
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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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We've got characters in the UK like Boris Johnson, who's kind of like a proto Trump in many ways even down to the crazy blonde hair. Then Mayor of London, now Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson was widely seen as a cartoonish oaf and that made him strangely undentable as a politician. No one could land a blow on him because he was already ridiculous.
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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 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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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 actually had that conversation with [Channel 4 Chief Creative Officer] Jay Hunt. We were at a bit of a crisis point. I'd written a totally different script - about war, basically - that got rejected at the last minute for various reasons. The whole of the series was in doubt. I said, Well, there is one other idea [National Anthem].
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I've always had a bad attention span.
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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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Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.
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You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.
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Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.
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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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I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.
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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.
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