Steven Soderbergh, director of Che: Part One (2008) and Che: Part Two (2008), in an interview with Alex Simon, said of this movie: "That's a fascinating movie. Flawed, but really the things that people disliked about it when it came out are what makes it interesting now, it's refusal to sort of play to the idea of a war-torn romance. An absolute refusal to be sentimental or easy about anything. Brooke Adams' character was really fascinating. Here's a woman who says 'Look, I don't know what little fantasy you've got in your head, but don't play it out on me, because I'm not that.' And this guy (Sir Sean Connery) who's wrestling with the fact that the kind of guy he is, is obsolete now. It's a really interesting movie."
Director Richard Lester once said of this movie: "'Cuba' is very much a film about a unique place and time. Within my lifetime, it was the most extraordinarily successful revolution. I wanted to portray an impression of the moment that one regime was replaced by the next. I thought it would be a fascinating film."
Sir Sean Connery fell out with director Richard Lester during production. He later said, "I don't make many mistakes, but 'Cuba' was one of them". He and Lester reportedly never spoke to each other again. He later called Lester in an interview, "This idiot director".
At around the time of release, executive producer Denis O'Dell once said of using Spain to portray Cuba: "Cuba has changed radically in twenty years, But Jerez de la Frontera, Cadiz and Seville, which was a major source of Cuban architecture in the first place, have hardly been touched by time."
Director Richard Lester once described this movie as "A political film within, which no one speaks about politics, and a love story, in which no one speaks about love."