Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

I've always had a bad attention span.

I can worry about anything.

In Britain people might know me more for my comedy writing background, things like that.

The internet's perfect for all manner of things, but productive discussion ain't one of them. It provides scant room for debate and infinite opportunities for fruitless point-scoring: the heady combination of perceived anonymity, gestated responses, random heckling and a notional “live audience” quickly conspire to create a “perfect storm” of perpetual bickering.

I saw The Twilight Zone for the first time when I was 12 or 13. I used to stay up late to watch.