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
tvs
You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.
different world gotham
The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.
mind tvs advantage
One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.
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.
brilliant created lasted man operating society strange
(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.
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.
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.