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

[One of my kids ]is not named after Aldous Huxley. I haven't even read Brave New World!

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

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 a barrel of laughs, isn't it? It makes The Day After look like friggin'...insert name of cheerful thing here. It was one of the things that made me really worry about worst-case scenarios. There's something impish and probably somewhat therapeutic about thinking about those things.

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

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.