Where the inspiration for this film came from?

I just started to think about westerns and reading about history of the West, and then travelling around America people were saying I.m from Scotland, my parents came from Ireland, Scandinavia, Germany – I thought it really hasn't been explored in the Western films before, so I thought – taking it from the Western full of European characters would be interesting...

Cool... And you, obviously, didn't shoot it in the West because the West didn't look as you wanted it to look…

Yeah, that's true, that's very true, I think that still a lot of Colorado parts does, but it's just so vast, it.s so hot to shoot, and the movies goes through a lot of kind of plains, desert, trees, hills, mounts, there are a lot of travel in there, and New Zealand has a lot of that within it... and it's so compact... So, yeah, it was there...

What's your favorite Western? If you can pick one...

I'd say it's probably "Once Upon a Time in the West"... And my favorite Western-non-Western would be "McCabe and Mrs. Miller"... But I love got so many Westerns, actually...

Do you pull any hints or anything really specific that you want...

I think there's nodes to McCabe and Missis Miller in this and few other Westens, there's also other genres in this film – Japanese cinema and European Cinema, so I didn't want it to be western influenced by Westerns kind-of-film...

What inspired you to jump-up here?

It's just always you reading the script and something you like that you want to put yourself into and express and it was definitely one of those, I just read it and felt it's an amazing book I was reading, the adventures and the emotions that goes through it, and when I met John I felt that he's on the same page that I saw the character and from there we just took on...