Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

We always wanted to make a comedy that was a little bit more than that, which had tragic elements to it... that people engaged with - an intelligent comedy essentially.

I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance.

Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands.

So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.

When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing.

I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for television.

'Sightseers' started off as a character comedy double act.

I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.

Women were supposed to be strong, but they weren't really, they weren't allowed to be.

He dropped the tavern apron in a heap on the floor and pulled the freshly laundered one up and over his head, tied it with slightly tremoring fingers. The vast whiteness felt like absolution.

By lighting another’s candle you brighten your own.

Take it from Richard, poor and lame, What's begun in anger ends in shame.

Without an expectation of success, one is rarely successful.

Money has lost its narrative quality the way painting did once upon a time. Money is talking to itself.

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

Live this day as if it will be your last. Remember that you will only find "tomorrow" on the calendars of fools.

To be tired it is only in your mind.