Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote were "Lethal Weapon 4" and "Shanghai Noon" with Jackie Chan. Then we sort of got pulled into the… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
I mean when you go to a network and say, "We want to make a martial arts series in the future." And give them the pitch. And by the way, the only way to achieve the authentic Hong Kong martial arts we need a full-time fight team unit working concurrently, and we're hiring a Chinese fight team from Hong Kong.… — Alfred Gough Copy Share
You know what's funny about the people who say mean things? There's a certain part of Twitter that is literally shouting into the void,… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week. — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to begin to… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
So the idea was that, some catastrophic event had happened. There was a long dark age and then out of that, 100 years ago… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
We now live in a world both in film and television where everything is based on something. You point out, "Star Wars" was an… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise, you definitely… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
![“They [movies] don't really have the cultural impact - other than "Star Wars," of course - that they used to because television is something that week to week people invite into their homes. It's a relationship that in success can go on six, seven, eight years. I think certainly in the early days…” quote by Alfred Gough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1d3/alfred-gough-31609_courses_they-movies-don-t-really-have-the-cultur_1034714.jpg)
![“Most fight sequences on a television show, probably any action adventure show that you know of, if you asked them how long they probably spend, [it's] one or two days doing the fight. Where we were spending eight days concurrently with an episode doing our fight sequences.” quote by Alfred Gough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ca/alfred-gough-31609_action_most-fight-sequences-on-a-television-sho_1774185.jpg)
![“As a network, they're not the network that usually picks things up after the first episode airs. They definitely have a methodology that they follow. But they're very happy with the show [Into the Badlands]and they're very excited with how it's performed.” quote by Alfred Gough](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/36e/alfred-gough-31609_air_as-a-network-they-re-not-the-network-tha_2330331.jpg)