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Charlton Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is an English humourist, critic, author, screenwriter, producer, and presenter. He is the creator of the anthology series Black Mirror.

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[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

Brave, Brave New World, Huxley, Kids, Named

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

Saws, Time, Twilight, Watch, Watches, Zone

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.

Thinking, Thinking Right, Gone, See, Mode

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

Cynical, Ifs, Known, Sort, Worrier

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

Appalling, Happens, Nice, World

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"]. "

Anthem, Creative, Hunt, Ideas, National, War

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.

Anthem, Mean, Satire, Stories, Way

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.

Military, War, Men, Difficult, Story

I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.

Clubs, Fun, Grin, Like, State, Towns

I can worry about anything.

I Can, Worry

'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.

Crack, Cracks, Episodes, Feels, Like, Prescient

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.

Angry, Fist, Hate, Men, Store, Technology

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.

Come, Fear Of The Future, Future, Like, Technology, Worry

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.

Ideas, Marketing, Right, Saw, Thinking, Tweeting

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.

Circles, Crush, Everyone, Long, Self, Walking

As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.

Crazy, Ideas, Mirrors, Outpacing, Reality

I grew up in the countryside. But there's a danger of us romanticizing that. Because when I was a kid in 1982, that's what my parents were saying to me about television and comics and computer games!

1982, Comics, Games, Kids, Parent, Romanticizing

Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.

Animal, Learning, Powerful, Press, Thinking, Use

"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.

Away, Dead, Media, Stories, Using, Week

My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.

Black, Blimey, Continuum, Mirror, Mirrors, Part

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