The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.
Charlie BrookerOverall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.
Charlie BrookerMost writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.
Charlie BrookerThe biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.
Charlie Brooker