“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 superhero world, but then you look around at what's not on television and there wasn't really a martial arts shows. There are shows that do martial arts to a degree, but there's not a martial arts show.”
![“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)
