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

[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And you go, "Well, 'cause it's better?"

While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.

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

I'm quite geeky and I'm very much into video games and technology and stuff like that.

As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.

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