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.

Tinder is the ultimate gamification of romance. It's 'Pokemon Go' for the heart.

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

Is hacking ever acceptable? It depends on the motive.

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.'

I'm not anti-technology at all, really.

Videogames are probably my first love.

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 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 extremely neurotic; it's the way my brain is built.

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've got a phobia about throwing up.

I'm quite techy and gadgety.

I've got no attention span.

I wanna do some more goofy comedy stuff; I really enjoyed doing 'A Touch of Cloth.'

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.

I loved 'Get Out.'

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

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?'

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

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

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.

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

All Pixar movies are heartbreaking, aren't they?

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

I'm scared about everything. I'm an anxious worrier. I worry about the downside of everything.

I can quickly go to a place where I worry about society spiralling out of control.

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.

There's so much stuff flying around online, and it's so easy to get into arguments with people.

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.

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.

If someone doesn't respond to a phone call, I think they've died.

My career path is like crazy paving - it goes all over the place.

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

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

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.

The fashion industry is an immense cultural and social blight that only gets a free pass because its would-be detractors are scared it'll start criticising their haircut.

Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.

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

Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday's range obsolete on a whim.

What's odd about the selfie stick is that while it might faintly improve the photo you'll post on Facebook, it definitely makes you seem like a shallow, awful clown to any bystanders in the humdrum physical space you're posing in.

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

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

'MasterChef''s preliminary stages deliver just the right level of almost-drama for viewers feeling shagged out after a hard day's fruitless existence.

My brain knows best-before dates are a con; my panicky gut treats them like a nuclear countdown.

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

I remember I was changing to one phone from another and going through my old contact details, and so I was having to delete duplicate numbers to make room, and up came the name of someone who died, and... it felt hard to delete the name.

We don't sit down and look at the news pages and think, 'How could we do an episode about that?'

God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending.

If the Walkman had, by default, silently contacted your friends and told them what you were listening to, not only would no one have bought a Walkman in the first place, its designers would have been viewed with the utmost suspicion.