"A few years ago, when I'd be looking at Rossellini's historical films, I wanted to make a film about Andrew Jackson: the true story of Andrew Jackson, about a guy who commits genocide, who slaughters the Indians in Florida, who starts his law practice in Tennessee by importing hookers over the mountains from Virginia and pimping them off. These are things he actually did, and now he's on our currency and revered as an American hero." [Luc Sante, Interview Magazine, 1989]
Wikipedia on Andrew Jackson.