Aesthetic Quote by Miles Millar

There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.

— Scott Derrickson

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

[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

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

When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated. It's like, wow, is martial arts only a show?

— Wong Kar-wai

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

— Dat Phan

It's a fast-paced somewhat violent sport, but it's very much entertaining. And the greatest thing about mixed martial arts is that it transcends a…

— Michael Chandler

I wanted to know what exactly martial arts is. When you look at martial arts films, the later ones became more and more exaggerated.…

— Wong Kar-wai

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

I feel like it's a bit of a misconception that all actors have to be expert martial artists if they're Asian.

— Simu Liu

As an Asian man in the industry, you had to know martial arts.

— Simu Liu

On an analytical level, what's so special about the Asian approach to action is that there is a time signature to the fighting. Punch,…

— Gareth Evans