If you're not busy living, you're dying.
Ironically, there isn't much comedy film in Britain, which is quite surprising seeing that we're quite good at it.
I think in most couples or partnerships, there's a constant struggle for power and dominance.
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.
So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.
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.
When I was a kid the highlight of my week would be doing a fossil hunt at the local quarry. . . that kind of thing.
Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.
Mr. Speaker, in 1848, Karl Marx said, a progressive income tax is needed to transfer wealth and power to the state. Thus, Marx's Communist Manifesto had as its major economic tenet a progressive income tax. Think about it, 1848 Karl Marx, Communism. . . . I say it is time to replace the progressive income tax with a national retail sales tax, and it is time to abolish the IRS, my colleagues. I yield back all the rules, regulations, fear, and intimidation of our current system.
A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.