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.

I think people are starting to look away and questioning, and they're sort of horrified.

What are people going to expect when they sit down to watch a new episode of Black Mirror? And what you're going to expect is somebody with a translucent TV in a drone strike and a robot walking by... or frowning at a phone and going 'aaah! Oh no! I've just deleted my own leg!' or whatever. So I thought well, let's not do that.

You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.

I could worry about pretty much anything you put in front of me, so I'm not actually sort of anti-technology. So it doesn't sort of come out of that. It's not like a fear of the future. It's a fear of everything.

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

I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.