Bruno Heller

It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

— Bruno Heller

The great thing about Gotham is it encompasses so many different worlds.

— Bruno Heller

You can't be someone you're not on TV. You can in movies, but not on TV because you can't hide.

— Bruno Heller

One of the tricks that you have to learn, with episodic TV, is you don't know how many years you're going to…

— Bruno Heller

To me, the difference between mythology and real history is that the real history has to tell a kind of believable story…

— Bruno Heller

When I've had hard times in my life, the one thing about being in TV is that it's positive. I withdrew to…

— Bruno Heller

One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and…

— Bruno Heller

he beauty of this world [of comics] is there are so many stories to tell, and there's so many wonderful characters. Wonderful…

— Bruno Heller

It's easy to leave people wanting more after the first episode, but it's hard to leave people wanting more after the 24th…

— Bruno Heller

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

— Bruno Heller

You name the TV psychic - they're con men.

— Bruno Heller

“Write on a screen that has no Internet access.”

— Bruno Heller

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

— Bruno Heller

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

— Bruno Heller

One of the advantages of series TV is that you can change your mind and plan things as you go.

— Bruno Heller

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

One of the challenges with series TV is not to give everyone all the punchlines, all the gags and all the fun…

— Bruno Heller

The evil of storytelling is you're trying to make the audience complicit in murder - 'Kill the guy! Jump him!' And then…

— Bruno Heller

When you get to the fourth, fifth and sixth years of a show, it's really good to have held back, so that…

— Bruno Heller

A lot of the challenge with TV, as opposed to making movies, is that you have to leave room for the characters…

— Bruno Heller

I think when people talk about lighter drama, they tend to use that term, not derogatorily, but 'lighter' means sort of less…

— Bruno Heller

Italy is still very much the same place it was 2,000 years ago. Italians are still the same .. there's a sense…

— Bruno Heller