It's nice to think people might be talking about it after they've seen it. With some comedies it's a bit 'wham bam thank you ma'am', and then you just go for a pizza.

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.

Language was just that thing that happened when you opened your mouth at the table, squeezed a few noises out of your vocal chords, and induced Socrates thereby to pass the salt.

I am tired of hearing negative words. I will supersaturate the world with positive words.

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

London is the sporting capital of the world. I say to the Chinese and I say to the world, ping pong is coming home.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.

I think the lesson that I learnt very early on was to listen to people you work with, because you're all in it together.

We are awakened to the profound realization that the true path to liberation is to let go of everything.

Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays; Come let us spend the lightsome days In the birks of Aberfeldy.

The passages in which Milton has alluded to his own circumstances are perhaps read more frequently, and with more interest, than any other lines in his poems.