William Friedkin: 'The film is not anti-Arab and is not anti-Muslim'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2000/08/09/william_friedkin2_interview.shtm l

Let me state right up front, the film is not anti-Arab, is not anti-Moslem and is certainly not anti-Yemen. In order to make the film in Morocco, the present King of Morocco had to read the script and approve it and sign his name [...] and nobody participating from the Arab side of things felt that the film was anti-Arab. The film is anti-terrorist. It takes a strong stand against terrorism and it says that terrorism wears many faces [...] but we haven’t made this film to slander the government of Yemen. It's a democracy and I don’t believe for a moment they support terrorists any more than America does.

-William Friedkin, 2000

"What I don't understand is how we're going to stay alive this winter."