I thought it would be great to work with Walter Hill on this type of buddy movie, which is a genre he knows well. Although, in this case, the main characters are not really buddies at all, but rather adversaries who have to work together against a mutual enemy because their lives depend on it. But out of that, an interesting relationship evolves–Stallone

Whenever I used to pitch the film to foreign investors, people had a hard time believing that the story was true, that these momentous events had actually happened in the late 1700’s–Director Arcel

I am not obsessed with exactitude. There’s historical with a capital H, this almost arm’s-length, dusty record of things, I wanted it to be vital and energetic. I wanted it to work as a Western, and I wanted it to work as an adventure film that would be thrilling and exciting to audiences–Tarantino

We all think that we know the ending. I was expecting, when they sent me the script, it would be like, “Yay! America!,” you know? “We did it!” It’s definitely not that. The last note of the film I found to be really deep and profound. And the fact that Kathryn ends the movie with a question, “Where do you want to go?” It’s bigger than Maya. It’s for everybody. And I found that incredible.

It’s always a question of interpretation. One person might say the husband does it as an act of love to finally deliver her from her suffering, while another could say he does it because he was overwhelmed by the situation. In reality, both explanations could be true–Michael Haneke