I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built. Charlie Brooker More Quotes by Charlie Brooker More Quotes From Charlie Brooker I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays. Charlie Brooker unexpected play television 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. Charlie Brooker technology hate men 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. Charlie Brooker marketing ideas thinking My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole. Charlie Brooker continuum black mirrors '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 episodes cracks feels 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. Charlie Brooker military book thinking "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. Charlie Brooker week media stories 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. Charlie Brooker black mirrors writing 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. Charlie Brooker worst-case-scenario names thinking 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. Charlie Brooker black mirrors war 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 grandparent organization religious [British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly cruel twist. A good example is the episode with Burgess Meredith and there's a nuclear war and he drops his glasses. To this day, you can show that to anyone and they'll go "Bwrrrrrrrr!" You know, sort of wander away shuddering. Charlie Brooker glasses house war [One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World! Charlie Brooker huxley brave-new-world kids I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful. Charlie Brooker reading attention fiction Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those. Charlie Brooker what-if laughing ideas Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them. Charlie Brooker paranoid worry people 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. Charlie Brooker kind real hands I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical. Charlie Brooker cynical known ifs 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"]." Charlie Brooker creative war ideas I can worry about anything. Charlie Brooker i-can worry
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