Bruno Heller
Bruno Heller
Bruno Helleris an English screenwriter, producer and director. He is known for creating the HBO television series Rome and CBS television series The Mentalist. He has recently produced the TV series Gotham based on the Batman franchise for FOX...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
thinking trying matter
You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.
drama mean thinking
I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less to a degree, but if you're an actor, light drama is often mistaken for easier drama.
mind tvs advantage
One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.
evil guy trying
The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then once you've done it, it's like, 'I've killed this guy, now what?
men psychics names
You name the TV psychic - they're con men.
drinking angel tongue
It's like an angel crying on your tongue.
real differences stories
To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story of how things happened. The physics has to work.
drama giving tvs
It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.
cheer hard-times tvs
When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to 'Cheers,' it was familiar in that it was family. It had a kind of realistic positiveness to it.
different world gotham
The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.
memories school design
One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing.
live-life years dignity
Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense of beauty and a sense of dignity and a sense of living life to the full that infects everyone.
jobs people mind
It's easy to leave people wanting more after the first episode, but it's hard to leave people wanting more after the 24th episode. And it's my job, more than anybody else's, to keep that in mind. One season, in TV terms, is nothing. You need to hit it for three or four seasons, and then you're doing well, in TV terms. Then, you've done your job.
years levels violence
When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that you have somewhere to go. That also applies to levels of violence, levels of humor, levels of production value.