Eric Kripke Quotes & Sayings

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch. — Eric Kripke

I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends. — Eric Kripke

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. — Eric Kripke

People simply don't make eye contact anymore. — Eric Kripke

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. — Eric Kripke

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. — Eric Kripke

People love a good mystery; I understand that. — Eric Kripke

Family don't end with blood — Eric Kripke

It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture. — Eric Kripke

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek. — Eric Kripke

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?' — Eric Kripke

I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love. — Eric Kripke

I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched. — Eric Kripke

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again. — Eric Kripke

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic. — Eric Kripke

Amanda: I guess if you can have faith you can't just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don't. — Eric Kripke

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.
- Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala — Eric Kripke

I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get there in an exciting, fast-paced way - enough that there's a really clear, aggressive direction to where it's going, to pay off mystery and reward the audiences loyalty. — Eric Kripke

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole. — Eric Kripke

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." — Eric Kripke

When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image. — Eric Kripke

A wise man once told me family don't end in blood, but it doesn't start there either. Family cares about you, not what you can do for them. Family's there through the good, bad, all of it. They got your back even when it hurts. That's family — Eric Kripke

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?" — Eric Kripke

Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart. — Eric Kripke

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. — Eric Kripke

You think you're funny?
I think I'm adorable. — Eric Kripke

Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis. — Eric Kripke

I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers' room, "This is the last season, so let's smoke 'em if we've got 'em." — Eric Kripke

It's the gig. You're covered in blood until you're covered in your own blood. — Eric Kripke

Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies. — Eric Kripke

I'm going to take care of you. I gotcha. Because that's my job, right? Taking care of my pain in the ass little brother. — Eric Kripke

When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches. — Eric Kripke

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. — Eric Kripke

What would you rather have, peace or freedom? — Eric Kripke

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. — Eric Kripke

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. — Eric Kripke

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective. — Eric Kripke