139 Quotes by Charlie Brooker

There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

We humans are great at creating tools with unforeseen consequences. For instance, when we invented the wheel, we had no way of knowing we were also laying the foundations for the TV show 'Top Gear.'

Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.

Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday's range obsolete on a whim.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

In the early '80s, the arcade game Pac-Man was twice as popular as oxygen.

The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.