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

I mean, sometimes we do do that, The National Anthem was a caustic satire and sometimes that's the way to go with the story rather than me being particularly misanthropic.

[My parents when I was a kid] would go, "It's a nice hot day. Why are you inside watching the TV?" And you go, "Well, 'cause it's better?"

I'm not some anti-technology person. I think it's often how people would assume that if they don't know me.

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

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

"Be Right Back," in which Hayley Atwell brings Domhnall Gleeson back from the dead using his social-media profile, sprang out of an unrelated conversation. Other stories you thrash away at for weeks and weeks.