I should be the poster boy for the #MeToo movement, says Woody Allen

Veteran filmmaker Woody Allen believes he should be the "poster boy" for the #MeToo movement because no female actors have accused him of inappropriate behaviour.

In a new interview with Argentinian news outlet Periodismo Para Todos, the director, who was accused in 2014 by his estranged adopted daughter Dylan Farrow of sexual abuse, said he is a "big advocate of the #MeToo movement" because it brings abusers in Hollywood to justice.

"I should be the poster boy for the Me Too movement. Because I have worked in movies for 50 years. I've worked with hundreds of actresses and not a single one big ones, famous ones, ones starting out have ever ever suggested any kind of impropriety at all. I've always had a wonderful record with them," Allen said.

Dylan has publicly alleged for years that the filmmaker sexually abused her as a child, which he has repeatedly denied. In the interview, Allen also said that "any situation where anyone is accused of something unjustly, this is a sad thing."