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

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.

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.

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

4 minutes in and this video has already given me an erection

You can lose your way anywhere.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ... the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.

Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

Had but my deeds been like my words, ah, then I had been numbered too with holy men.

Superb historical romance, with a spiritual theme woven seamlessly throughout. I much enjoyed The Covered Deep and look forward to more from its author!

And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago.

Well, you know, if you get into the profession because you think you can make a lot of money, you can never become successful.

I will stumble, I will fall down, but I will not be moved; I will make mistakes, I will face heartache, but I will not be moved.

There are tears. There's laughter. There's an unconscious thing happening between us as humans. There's so much about the brain that we don't understand. I believe everybody's empathic.