Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

Online you're encouraged to perform one personality for everyone.

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.

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

Technology isn't the villain and the people aren't often really the villain so much as they're weak.

The logic for me, in writing it is that the different areas or different years are almost like different rooms.