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
And having those mystical elements you see in Asian cinema and certainly Asian martial arts cinema, it's something that we wanted to… — 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… — Alfred Gough Copy Share Image
Miles and I had been looking to do a martial arts show for some time. Our first two movies that we wrote… — 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, and then sometimes when the void shouts back it's like, "Whoa! I wasn't expecting that. I got called out." And then if you have a conversation, you find out they like something or they like that… — Alfred Gough Copy Share
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 in this world, seven barons - these men and women - rose up and formed the new society. It's a feudal world, a part feudal barons and part warlord and part mob boss and they each… — Alfred Gough Copy Share
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)