Alfred Gough Quotes

United States, Screenwriter
August 22, 1967

Alfred Gough III is an American screenwriter and producer. Born in Leonardtown, Maryland, Gough graduated from St. Mary's Ryken High School and The Catholic University of America . Gough attended the Peter Stark Producing Program at the University of Southern California where he teamed up with his writing partner Miles Millar.

Also known as Producer

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
We liked the idea that it was a low-tech future. But everything always repeats the past. If you look today and look at something in the middle east where you got people getting beheaded it's like the crusades with Twitter. It's crazy, human nature does the same thing. In a way, even though you're in the future people wanted order so this sort of system rose up.

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- Future
- Past
- Low Tech

Some of the key components, we wanted it to be so far into the future that you weren't talking about our time. I was joking that the AMC cinematic universe is after the zombie apocalypse by hundreds and hundreds of years.

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- Years
- Talking
- Key
With a television show, it's about fighting to get it on the screen every week. It's like going into battle, and you have to fight these fights. Some are big fights, some are skirmishes, some you can come to detente on, but it's always a fight.

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- Fighting
- Television
- Show
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 learn a lot and for I think it was very gratifying to see the people embrace the world.

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- People
- World
- Embrace
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.

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- Happy
- Show
- Network
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 or they have questions about that.

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- People
- Twitter
- Void