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

The difference between smartphones and cigarettes is this: a cigarette robs 10 minutes from your lifespan, but at least has the decency to wait and withdraw all that time in bulk as you near the end of your life - whereas a smartphone steals your time in the present moment, by degrees. Five minutes here. Five minutes there. Then you look up and you're 85 years old.

I'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

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.

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.

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