Occupation: Film Actress Birth: April 3, 1977
Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood..
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... esp….
Growing up, I didn't feel very cool having come from the Midlands..
So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again..
If you can make someone believe that you believe in the idea then I think that's worth a lot..
I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on..
Manchester has a certain reputation of being cool..
I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance..
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry... that kind of thing..
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 ….
We actually did go on a camping trip together as part of the research, in a caravan, for a week. I guess we picked who annoyed us most from genuine e….
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..
Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it..
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 betwe….
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 ….
We developed 'Sightseers' as a TV idea but didn't get anywhere with it because all the channels said it was too dark originally as an idea for televi….
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 ….
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 jus….