Charlie Brooker Quotes

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

For hundreds of years, that was the major form of entertainment: The grown-ups sat around and watched the kids play. Now they sit around and watch the television. The actors are the kids.

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.

The sad thing is that I only ever read novels in bed and now only on the iPad, and thanks to Netflix and iTunes my reading time is getting eaten up more and more by movies and brilliant sci-fi television, like the U.K. series 'Misfits!'

Black people watch more television than anybody else, which makes it legitimate to talk about television. Its anesthetizing effect has been quite real. But that concern isn't new.

There's something magical about spending a Sunday night watching real people at a deli, then watching fake people pretending to be real on TV, then engaging in (arguably) false interaction with (arguably) real people on the Internet. Never at any prior point in time has this been possible.

I just don't watch a lot of TV.

Television is an isolating experience, sadly enough. I'm sorry to say it. But as good as it ever gets, it's still isolating. You sit in your home and visit with no one.

When I was a boy, there were three influences on children. The school, the family, and the church. Now there is a fourth---television.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

I never skimp on TV. I watch an embarrassing amount of TV shows. I don't even know how I do it.

I don't watch TV or movies or play video games.

I don't really find a problem with technology or television or anything. I'm a product of it. I grew up watching TV, and I don't think I'm too dumb or too crazy.

Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.

I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid.

I don't like the fact people watch things on their phones and tablets, it kind of hurts my heart.

I grew up watching tons and tons of television. It was all I would do, especially during summer vacations.

That's what I did growing up. Other than being on the computer, I was watching TV and movies. I make no apologies.

For about four years, all I did was watch television. I suppose my parents should have stopped me.

I'm a voracious reader. I also have a ton of favorite TV shows I'm addicted to.

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television. My mother insisted that her children read. To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Doesn't it seem ironic that people fear that we might become alienated by communicating with each other through computers, when we are already staring at these boxes in our living rooms for seven or eight hours a day, slack-jawed and saying nothing to anyone on either side and not talking back to it.

Man no longer dreams over a book in which a soft voice, a constant companion, observes, exhorts, or sighs with him through the pangs of youth and age. Today he is more likely to sit before a screen and dream the mass dream which comes from outside.