Charlie Brooker Quotes

There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.

'Homeland' does have that ability to tear the rug out from under you.

He'd done as he'd pleased and even had often enjoyed long runs of luck where he hadn't been caught. But the luckiest moment of his life had been being caught.

Wouldn't that put a twist in your toga?

The trouble with talking about irony is, it's such a slippery thing that the second you start talking about it, you're a better example of it than you are an analyst.

Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content; it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.

A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

The act of seeing any film generally is you knowing more than the characters, even if it's the classic Hitchcock shot of two people talking and a bomb being under the table. Part of the pleasure of it is seeing where people go wrong, and the irony of situations.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises.

It's really ironic that I won, because that's not the goal that I had in mind when I went out to skate.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

I never expected that this would be my life.

Never thought I'd be a bobble-head, but little did I know.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

It was great as an actor to be given the story line I was given but I didn't expect Craig to stay so it was a lovely twist when I found out they'd decided to keep him.

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go.

On the sequel, you've lost the element of surprise. Usually, on the first one you may not go very, very deep into character; the second one you start to explore the character a bit more.

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

I'm obsessed with giving the audience something they don't see coming.

The element of surprise - where you think you know where a joke is going, and then you're wrong. Those are my favorite kind of jokes.

Even if that were true, it wouldn't be irony," Lucas pointed out. "Irony is the contrast between what's said and what happens.

I went to the movie this weekend with a gun. And surprise, surprise, I didn't kill anybody!

Drama is based on the Mistake. I think someone is my friend when he really is my enemy, that I am free to marry a woman when in fact she is my mother, that this person is a chambermaid when it is a young nobleman in disguise, that this well-dressed young man is rich when he is really a penniless adventurer, or that if I do this such and such a result will follow when in fact it results in something very different. All good drama has two movements, first the making of the mistake, then the discovery that it was a mistake.