There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
Audiences are hungry for something different. With binge-watching, they're hungry for interesting content they haven't seen before, and they want to be entertained. A… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
I think we're always trying to avoid tropes. And I think that "Game of Thrones" has almost made killing people a cliche. For us,… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
Another thing we wanted to do, a lot of shows or movies that are in the future or the post-apocalyptic are very bleached, desaturated… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
There's a level of action unlike anything else on television. AMC always makes distinctive television and I think that certainly fits that requirement. — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
Also, having grown up in England, you walk around London, you're passing relics that are a thousand years old - the wall of London… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
People want to get immersed and lost in a world. They want to lean in and figure it out, and that's true of both… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
We liked the idea of introducing the audience to the world, and to show how much they had accepted or were confused by it.… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
Also, when we did "Smallville," we didn't have an opportunity to interact with people who watched the show. And see what they had to… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
[Into the Badlands] wasn't going to be two days of a splinter unit at the end of the shoot. The action and the martial… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
There are a couple of specific things about the show [Into the Badlands]. We didn't want to do a contemporary show, which is always… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
We knew Terry Brooks' work, but we hadn't read the Shannara books. So, they sent us the book to read and we just loved… — Miles Millar Copy Share Image
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