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

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

The fashion industry is the worst possible vessel for conveying an ethical message about anything.

I never really thought of myself as a TV critic. I was presenting TV before I was writing about it.

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

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.

Our metropolises are blighted by two problems: a lack of public transport and a lack of public loos.

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

In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

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

When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.

I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.

My bookshelves chiefly function as a snapshot of what I was reading prior to the invention of the Kindle.

The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.

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

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

Calling Batman 'the Dark Knight' is like calling Papa Smurf 'the Blue Patriarch':you're not fooling anyone.

'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

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

I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.

I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.

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

We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.

New Year's resolutions work like this: you think of something you enjoy doing and then resolve to stop doing it.

I do worry about civil unrest, or complete collapse of society, or having to flee, or Europe falling into a war.

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

You can tell a lot about a person by the way they treat waiters and shop assistants, especially when you are one.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

Like bankers, top footballers are massively overpaid, but at least you comprehend what they're doing for the money.

With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'

People bemoan the loss of watercooler chat, but I think that there's more of that than ever. It's just that it's online.

I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.

Obviously, you try not to repeat yourself so that forces you to re-evaluate what you're doing constantly [in Black Mirror].

'Waldo' was one episode I always felt I didn't quite crack. And weirdly, now that feels like one of the more prescient ones.

'MasterChef' delivers all the reassuring, cadenced repetition of an endless chore without any of the bothersome elbow grease.

Most writers or performers walk around with the notion in their head that - a paranoid worry that maybe people don't like them.

I'm trying to think overall. Some of our stories [Black Mirror], I think you're right in that they don't tend to have a message.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.

Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.

Often the ideas in the show start out as ideas that make you laugh - outrageous "what if" ideas. I wanted an outlet for doing those.

What happens often is the script is written and once the director comes on board you have lots of conversations and it mutates again.

I used to draw comics a lot. I was obsessed with 'The Young Ones,' and was massively into video games, although I was no good at them.

As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.

The sole purpose of a crown is to make anyone not wearing one feel like an insignificant pauper. They're obscene to the point of satire.

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

I was more aware initially of shows like Tales of the Unexpected. And the BBC used to put on a lot of one-off, bizarre television plays.

Hopefully, some supervillain threat will come down, and we will have to unite as a species and fire our nukes into the sun or something.

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