I'm known as being a massive dweeb who's into video games and so on.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.

Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

[British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly cruel twist. A good example is the episode with Burgess Meredith and there's a nuclear war and he drops his glasses. To this day, you can show that to anyone and they'll go "Bwrrrrrrrr!" You know, sort of wander away shuddering.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.