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

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.

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

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.

Learning means change and change is usually difficult.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.

Some days I would get so exhausted, nauseous, in pain - just from going back through things. It's almost as if I had the experience and then the meta-experience.

You make me want to be a better man.

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

Sometimes you need lies to stay alive.

To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight.