I kept saying I want to do an episode that's set in the past, how do we do a period episode of Black Mirror? And simultaneously there was another idea we were thinking about and the two things sort of gelled and became San Junipero.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come out with a stone-cold conversation-killer like, "This room's quite rectangular, isn't it?" I glide through the social whirl with all the elegance of a dog in high heels

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

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.

It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

I've always had a bad attention span.