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

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Most of the books I read these days are children's books at bedtime.

[Black Mirror] is always about unforeseen consequences and unforeseen problems, it's not usually that someone's created a machine that they want to enslave mankind with, it's someone's invented a new kind of... paperweight that enslaves mankind.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.

[British television series] Hammer House of Horror. I used to really enjoy these one-off stories where often there would be an incredibly cruel twist. A good example is the episode with Burgess Meredith and there's a nuclear war and he drops his glasses. To this day, you can show that to anyone and they'll go "Bwrrrrrrrr!" You know, sort of wander away shuddering.