Bruce Miller spent the first part of his career penning movies that rarely got made, until he started writing television movies. All of a sudden, his stories were coming to the silver screen and then he moved to television.

Today, Miller is best known for writing on ‘ER,’ ‘Everwood,’ ‘Medium,’ ‘The 4400,’ ‘In Plain Sight,’ Alphas,’ ‘The 100,’ and now, he’s the creator of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale.’

On Hulu’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ the story opens in a dystopian future, where a woman (played by Elisabeth Moss) is forced to live as a concubine under a fundamentalist theocratic dictatorship.

In this interview, Miller talks about the quick feedback of television, the importance of “writing well fast,” writing emotionally difficult scenes, learning curves in television, misconceptions within the industry, and how he fills the Writer’s Room.

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