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
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.
blessed years tvs
One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to be blessed with.
character stories world
he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful characters we haven't even begun to introduce - it's a world that is infinitely expandable.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
different world gotham
The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.
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.
drama giving tvs
It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.
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.
drinking angel tongue
It's like an angel crying on your tongue.