I'm not anti-American. I've lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

I've lived in California for six years and I've never surfed.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.

I lived in Cyprus for six years where I learnt all about flatbreads.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.