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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You always think, no matter how many times you fail, that the next time you will succeed. Otherwise you wouldn't keep trying.
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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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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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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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(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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If there is an HBO style, it's a merciless attention to the truth and reality of things.
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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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You can't understand that period of history unless it shocks you.