 Movies don't have time to explain.You have to get right to the muscle.”

The film adaptation of "Miracle at St. Anna" attracted the attention of Italian producers Roberto Cicutto and Luigi Musini, the co-founders of On My Own Produzioni Cinematografiche.Cicutto explained that they knew that Lee was "not just coming to Italy to make a film as an American director, but to make a film that belongs to his culture and to our history."