Television Quotes by Miles Millar

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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

It's [Into the Badlands] something that's very, very different and I think that's why it divided critics initially because they didn't understand it or…

— Miles Millar

There's always someone kicking guns. We wanted ["Badlands"] to be a world without guns and bullets, where martial arts was the form of fighting…

— Miles Millar

It was very challenging in terms of making sure that everyone is distinct. Also, we wanted to have some Asian influences as well, so…

— Miles Millar