Bruno Heller Quotes & Sayings

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

#2. It gives me vertigo to watch TV dramas.

#3. 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.

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

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#5. 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.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. 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?'

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#12. 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.

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

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#14. 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.

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#15. 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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