Charlie Brooker Quotes

I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.

I like sci-fi that is not entirely impossible.

Science fiction still is an idea genre.

What are people going to expect when they sit down to watch a new episode of Black Mirror? And what you're going to expect is somebody with a translucent TV in a drone strike and a robot walking by... or frowning at a phone and going 'aaah! Oh no! I've just deleted my own leg!' or whatever. So I thought well, let's not do that.

Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.

My first obligation is to entertain but as far as science fiction goes, it's much easier to comment on today from another time because people then aren't focused on 'did you get the details right?' It's sort of a Trojan horse approach to ideas because it's wrapped in the future, it's wrapped in action, thriller.

I saw an episode - the second episode [of Black Mirror], "Fifteen Million Merits" - and I completely flipped out: "This is what my nightmares are made of. This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen."

Science fiction doesn’t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the present…We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different

Science fiction is a kind of archaeology of the future.

Scientists are embarrassed by science fiction; they want to distance themselves as much as possible. ... I think there's nothing to be ashamed of [and that] we should take science fiction seriously.

I think I started watching 'Trek' in the mid-'70s when I was in elementary school, and I was just into space. Somewhere along the way, I started realizing there were really interesting ideas in the show.

I think what's so brilliant about 'Black Mirror' is that it is a mirror into our own messed-up psyches.

I love J. G. Ballard. I love authors who take the world as we know it and just tweak one thing and say, 'What if the world were like this?'

I've always had a real interest in the way that science fiction can portray a world that could be different to our world, which I find a really exciting thought.

'Black Mirror' is definitely my favorite show.

A lot of people want what I would call sci-fi; people want television to be what they think the world should look like. That is different than what I do.

Certainly, shows like 'Black Mirror' helped me. I should send them a fruit basket.

I love 'Black Mirror.'

While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.

My love of science fiction comes from the idea of being able to explore ideas and concepts to an either logical or illogical extreme.

Science fiction is what we point to when we say it.

All the science fiction I loved as a kid was holding up a mirror to society and warning us about the need for course correction.

What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time.

That's really what SF is all about, you know: the big reality that pervades the real world we live in: the reality of change. Science fiction is the very literature of change. In fact, it is the only such literature we have.