Bruno Heller Quotes

• 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.

  Bruno Heller

  Topics in Positive

  Tags in Realistic, Hard Times

• 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?’

  Bruno Heller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Evil, Storytelling

• 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.

  Bruno Heller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tend, Easier

• You name the TV psychic – they’re con men.

  Bruno Heller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Psychic, Name

• You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn’t keep trying.

  Bruno Heller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fail, Succeed

• There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o’clock on a network.

  Bruno Heller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Avant-Garde, Network

• Never name a show after a character if you want to be the guy running the show.

  Bruno Heller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Running, Character

• It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

  Bruno Heller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Dramas, Vertigo

Bruno Heller (8)

Birth:	1960
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Director, Producer, Screenwriter

About

Carl Bruno Heller is an English screenwriter and creator of the HBO television series Rome and CBS television series The Mentalist. Son of Hollywood screenwriter Lukas Heller, he is brother to columnist and Notes on a Scandal author Zoe Heller. He is currently creating a TV series based on the Batman character James Gordon called Gotham for Fox Broadcasting Company.

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