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.

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.

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

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

And honestly, given the choice of facing my mother or a vampire, I think I'd always choose the latter.

The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

A lot of sneaker brands come to me, not even just designers. They come to me with ideas trying to push different things, and I want it to be stuff that I feel is organic.

Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence.

Taking time out each day to relax and renew is essential to living well.

I still love old-school hip-hop, but there hasn't been a lot that I've taken from the new stuff.

Words are the legs of the mind; they bear it about, carry It from point to point, bed it down at night, and keep it off the ground and out of the marsh and mists.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.