Eric Kripke Quotes
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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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Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
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Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
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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'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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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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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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When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
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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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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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It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
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It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.
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Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
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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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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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I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
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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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At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.
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Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.
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People simply don't make eye contact anymore.
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It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.
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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.
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Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.