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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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've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.
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Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
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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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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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You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.
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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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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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It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
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People simply don't make eye contact anymore.
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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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Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.
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Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
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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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I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
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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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When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with a character or a logline like, "What if the electricity turned off?"
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I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.