That was the first conversation in my life that I'd ever heard the phrase Al Qaeda. And it was something to do with some recording picked up by a French policewoman, I think, in either Libya or Algiers. And it was a destabilization plan. I don't think that I was the only person. But it was about—and here's another little touch of irony— it was about taking iconographic Americans out of the picture as a sort of cultural-destabilization plan.

The irony being that he is a New Zealand born Australian, who has often made clear his dislike of being in Hollywood. - GQ Interview (2005)