Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool.

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.

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

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.

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.