“This is State of Siege. You know, I saw this, I had seen Z first, and the, you know, this is a movie in a very, very political time. You could actually, if you weren't an American, get away with making a very political movie. This was a filmmaker who had really a lot of political analysis about what was going on in the country, but managed to make these thrillers. And to a certain extent, you had to be careful where you shot these movies. You had to go to a place where, you know, it's not just are they going to stop us from shooting, are they going to threaten us, it's also what's going to happen to the people who collaborated and cooperated with us, that we are going to leave behind while we're shooting. And you have to think of that before you go. When we shot our movie Men with Guns, we didn't shoot in Guatemala because we felt like anybody who works with us, when we leave, is going to be on somebody's list. So we shot it in Mexico across the border.”
