[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.

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

I think somebody's marketing a thing that Hoovers up your Twitter and it will continue tweeting for you after you're dead. I have no idea whether they saw "Be Right Back" or not.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to feel intimidated by people like this; now I see them as walking insecurity beacons, slaves to the perceived judgment of others, trapped within a self- perpetuating circle of crushing status anxiety.

My kids are very young. I'm sure there's a world of horror for me to worry about as they get older.

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.