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.

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

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.

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.

Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.

The film [Sightseers] is really the story of the journey of a relationship, so the killings are almost a metaphor for the trials they go through. We wanted people to identify with the experience of going on holiday and having a quarrel with your wife, boyfriend, whatever. We knew if we didn't crack that it would not be watchable as a film.

Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.