When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

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.

Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

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

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

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