People gravitate towards their own era, nostalgia therapy is a real thing that's being tinkered with.

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.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

[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'm a worrier. In the UK, if I'm known for anything, it's sort of for being cynical.

My continuum? Blimey! For me,Black Mirror is all part of the whole.

What we were also trying to do is vary the tone slightly across the season of Black Mirror, because there are six stories this time around, so you don't want it to just be the devastating, bleak-em-up.