Charlie Brooker Quotes

When Lucas was doing Star Wars, he didn't have a 50 million person Facebook following where he could just sift through feedback to try to get an idea for what he was going to do next. It's a luxury we have today.

I love doing television series.

I'd love to do another television series. I really love the writing process, and as an actor I really like how much you get to examine in television.

At the end of Season Four of 'Mr. Show,' instead of doing another season, everyone just thought they wanted to go and do a movie. Kind of like Monty Python. Monty Python went right into 'And Now For Something Completely Different,' and everyone kind of compared 'Mr. Show' to Monty Python.

I don't know if it's a romantic comedy but I'm in the beginning of the first of the season of 'The West Wing.' We shot it last year. I don't know. If anyone asks me to be in one, I'll jump on it.

I'll always love movies. But there's something I love very much about TV, when you shoot episodes while other episodes are still being written.

I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.

I'm very excited to work with everybody on 'The Bridge' - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. I'm very lucky to be a part of it.

I loved doing 'Gilmore Girls.' I love Amy Sherman-Palladino. I'd do anything with her.

I'd love to work with Jed Whedon on 'S.H.I.E.L.D.'

In television, the 60-minute series, 'The Wire' and 'Mad Men' and so on, the writer is the primary creative artist.

I'm an actor, and so of course I want to see TV companies making good dramas. I want that to be a priority.

I wrote for 'King of the Hill' for three seasons.

To get a game show into production is as challenging and as intellectually demanding as it is to write a novel or screenplay.

I made up my mind that I will do fiction in films and non-fiction in TV.

I make it happen. Who bought Alex Haley's book 'Roots' for TV? Me. I hired the director, hired the writer. I put them all together. I'm like the chef. If I mix all the ingredients right, it's going to taste terrific. If I don't, it's not going to come out good.

I am constantly thinking of different ideas and formats for TV shows. I am in a place where anything is possible if you want to do it.

I wanted to understand the whole medium and that is when I decided to do television. Once I thought that, I was confident about making a film.

Some of the stuff I get the scripts for, I read it and I'm like, "Wow." We're doing some crazy stuff on this show [Legends of Tommorow]. it's going to be amazing.

To sit down at a computer every day and write a script is commendable. I don't have the patience for it, but I have some fantastic ideas.

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em."

I have a shoebox: for ideas, fragments, snatches of conversation I hear. I scrawl it down, throw the scraps in the box. Every time I start a new script I start picking through the pieces. Suddenly you get five pieces together and think: this is almost the first Act of a movie, if I flesh it out a bit.

After any disturbance (such as two world wars coinciding with a period of growing economic and monetary incomprehensibility) we find our old concepts inadequate and look for new ones. But it unfortunately happens that the troubled times which produce an appetite for new ideas are the least propitious for clear thinking.

I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six months ago, I'll bring it back into the playing field. I can tweak ideas or make them better. Just come up with something and then we go from there.

With a television series, there's a hard deadline, and so you have to write even when you're not writing well.