Eric Kripke Quotes
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Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
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There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.
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Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
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I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.
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In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.
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It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.
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What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.
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I'm going to put out something that I believe in, or I'm not going to do it." I'm really scared of putting out a product that people will say, "Oh, that's not as good as the other thing."
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If I had a worldview, and I don’t know if I do, but if I did, it’s one that’s intensely humanistic. That worldview is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that’s the only thing that gives life meaning. Religion and gods and beliefs — for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole, it’s about human connections.
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We say it’s a modern American Western - two gunslingers who ride into town, fight the bad guys, kiss the girl and ride out into the sunset again. And we were always talking from the very beginning that if you’re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse.
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I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.
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When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
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It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
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Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.
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If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.
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Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.
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We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.
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Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
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I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
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People simply don't make eye contact anymore.
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The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.
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People love a good mystery; I understand that.
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People pitch me the crazy mystery mind-blowing thing all the time. My response is, 'Great, but how do the characters feel about it, and how do we reveal new facets and new dimensions of who they are?
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Every so often, you want to map out your plot mythology but never so specifically that you can't let a story surprise you. You want to allow the type of action of the writer's room so that you have the ability to take a left turn.