I've never lost that freelance mentality. You can't take a holiday because you're worried the work will dry up.
— Charlie Brooker
There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.
I do think that it's a dysfunctional relationship between columnists and commentators, because they both seem to hate each other, like a terrible marriage.
When you meet people you've interacted with on social media, they are not like they are on social media.
People always assume I went to public school, which I didn't, so that immediately puts me somewhere.
Brexit is a harbinger for Trump, really.
The logical quandaries thrown up by well-meaning systems are clearly something that I find darkly amusing.
I loved 'Get Out.'
I've got no attention span.
I don't know how, at an age when you're trying to put your identity together, how you cope with the pressure of a performance space, which is what social media is.
I'm extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.
Videogames are probably my first love.
Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.
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.
When you're being earnest, people think you're being sarcastic, and when you're being sarcastic, they think you're being earnest. The moral in all this, of course, is that people should never attempt to communicate.
We take miracles for granted on a daily basis.
We're inseparable, games and I. If you cut me, I'd bleed pixels. Or blood. Probably blood, come to think of it.
If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.
When it comes to something like Brexit, I am part of the liberal-media London bubble, and so, to me, voting to leave was madness. My perspective was that it was cutting off your nose to spite your face.
I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.
I have often felt the worlds of social media and the Internet are like a weird dreamscape. Even physically, when you are looking at your phone, you are out of it.
If there's no point, then there's no point giving up.
In the age of social media, everyone's a newspaper columnist, exaggerating what they think and feel.
On 'Black Mirror,' we don't tend to deal with big, powerful people, because when you look at a Weinstein or something, you think, 'Is he capable of feeling anything?'
I'm looking forward to the 'Twilight Zone' from Jordan Peele... if anyone's gonna reboot the 'Twilight Zone,' then there's the man to do it.
Technology is a tool that has allowed us to swipe around like an angry toddler.
I've got a phobia about throwing up.
I remember when I realised, as a child, 'That stuff on the TV about nuclear bombs is real! Why isn't everyone running around shouting 'Aaarrgghh'? Why are people still buying bicycle clips?'
I'm not anti-technology at all, really.
I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.
I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.
People tend to think I'm a lot more earnest than I am.
It's hard to think of a single human function that technology hasn't somehow altered, apart perhaps from burping. That's pretty much all we have left.
I haven't always been the kind of man who plays videogames. I used to be the kind of boy who played videogames.
Online, you're trying to appeal to everyone and people who you don't know at the same time. So I think, as a side effect, it amplifies the desire for groupthink.
There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.
I'm scared about everything. I'm an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.
All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?
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.
I think the problem we have as apes is we're asking far bigger questions than we could possibly process.
With 'Hang the DJ,' I was concerned that it was more comedic and much lighter than we normally do for 'Black Mirror.'
I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'
I'm quite techy and gadgety.
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.
I liked 'Making A Murderer,' 'Master of None.' 'Stranger Things' I watched along with everyone else in the world. 'Narcos,' I really liked 'Narcos' a lot.
I liked that sort of thing, those one-off stories like 'Tales of the Unexpected,' 'Hammer House of Horror,' 'The Twilight Zone' and 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents.'
Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.
At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.
'The Twilight Zone' was sometimes shockingly cruel, far crueller than most TV drama today would dare to be.
Games get a bad press compared with, say, opera - even though they're obviously better, because no opera has ever compelled an audience member to collect a giant mushroom and jump across some clouds.
