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.

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 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.

If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot.

I think what's difficult is proving to people that a script actually does work and sometimes the laughter might not be on the page, it might be between the lines.

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

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.