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
drama giving tvs
It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.
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.
character challenges stories
A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters in the story to tell themselves. Sometimes you don't know where a character is going to go and what's going to happen to them until you've seen the actor take that part and make it their own.
tvs
You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.
running fun giving
One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun stuff at the top. Everyone is so anxious, for very good reasons, to hit the ground running, but I've been on the other end of that.
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.
different world gotham
The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.
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.
men psychics names
You name the TV psychic - they're con men.
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?
mind tvs advantage
One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.
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.
avant-garde visionaries world
There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a network.
brutal caesar dichotomy filled great movies people sets strangely time victorian view warrior writer
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.