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 trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

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

As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.

I am neurotic, and I'm a worrier.

I suppose kids probably know less boredom these days - or at least a different kind of boredom.

I would say the thing you can still see in Black Mirror is that I was probably traumatized by the specter of nuclear war. I was born in 1971, and in the '80s I came to understand that I was inevitably going to be frazzled to death in the nuclear apocalypse.