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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.

When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world that which bears no relation to the style of filmmaking that I'm used to.

I now have two different audiences. There's the one that has been watching my action films for 20 years, and the American family audience. American jokes, less fighting.

I'm less comfortable making American movies because I don't know them so well.

I think it's always a good time to be in a political film in America because there's so much material for comedy.

I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go and see a popular mainstream film with a big audience.' Because people shout out. You never get that in Britain. Everybody's so quiet, scared to laugh. It's like being in church.

I'd like to do a film which is funny.

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

You can do a hell of a film if you can understand what it is to be a man in America.

Bathroom humor, fart, and poo poo humor in movies gets a laugh. It's a pretty easy audience, and that's been around for ages.