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.

I always think it's just best to just make stuff and to carry on making stuff, even if it's not off your own back, because that's the only way... especially as a comedy writer, I make short films and then show them to live audience, so if they're laughing you know you're doing something right.

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

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

I think 99% of the whole thing is to have passion about the idea yourself. I think part of your job as a filmmaker is to tell someone that might not think it's going to work that, actually, it will work.

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.

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