49 Quotes by Bruno Heller

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

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.

It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

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

I essentially took the seed of that idea to try to tell a big, historical epic, but from the street level, the everyman's point of view.

(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.

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.

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.

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.