Women - why aren't you running the world yet? Frankly I'm disappointed in you. Men are still far too dominant for their own good, and consequently we've made a testosterone-sodden pig's ear of just about everything: politics, the economy, religion, the environment ... you name it, it's in a gigantic man-wrought mess.

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

I'm more pro-technology than people probably realize.

A sort of angry populism here in the UK and across Europe, a sort of anti-political mood and what then steps into that place? In one episode [of Black Mirror] you won't have seen, there's a very simple gaming gadget that turns out to be a monstrous idea, which I suspect we will end up doing for real.

[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.