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

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

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.

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

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 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.