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
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One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.
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Caesar was frightening to be around ... if ever anyone was born to be a king, he was. But they (the Romans) had an ancestral fear of kings, similar to the American fear to a degree ? pride in their liberty.
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It was important to us to get the facts right, but more important the spirit of the times, to be very precise about this moment in history. It was important to get the fine detail right so that you felt that you were in a real world.
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I think it was a brutal time filled with people who were strangely sophisticated and uncivilized. Over the years movies tended to take a Victorian gentleman's view of this world ù all marbleized sets and men. But Caesar was a great warrior and writer and a war criminal, by our definition. ...There was a dichotomy between sophistication and viciousness that was specifically Roman.
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(He) must have been a very strange and brilliant man. He ... created a new way of operating a society that lasted for another 500 years.
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You can't understand that period of history unless it shocks you.
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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.
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He's a known character. We designed it so that when you see Caesar, it's through other people's eyes, it's how the people around him see him. Because, to a degree, a character like Caesar is always unknowable.
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Film is still an art there, as opposed to an industry.
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I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street level, the everyman's point of view.
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Rome from street level. (It's) Rome from the point of view of ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of that time.
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There he was in the Forum, bellowing at these soldiers, and the whole thing was entirely real. It was a very strange moment. Everyone felt a shiver.
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There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
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You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.