he's supposed to die with your secrets, not do it for glory, but for a country and for -- and because it's the right thing to do. that was, you know, really nice value to reflect and our clandestine service folks sacrifice for us a great deal and we've seen again tragically our diplomats who go overseas and put themselves in harm's way like the six diplomats in this movie, you know, sacrifice a great deal so the clandestine and foreign service to me were something that was really nice to profile in this movie. >> when you look back at that experience, and recreating tehran, do you think about the geopolitics of it? >> we're still entangled with them in this thorny antagonistic way. i tried to make a movie as much as possible, that cans be politicized, nobody could wrap themselves in the flag and say this proves my point about doing one thing or the other. we were going to come up before an election and did not want to