The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.

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

There's something I find very satisfying about a nice ironic twist.

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.

What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six stories this time around, so you don't want it to just be the devastating, bleak-em-up.

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