Best Kripke Quotes & Sayings

I am somewhat uncertain whether there is a definite factual question as to whether natural language handles truth-value gaps ... Nor am I even quite sure that there is a definite question of fact as to whether natural language should be evaluated by the minimal fixed point or another, given the choice of a scheme for handling gaps. We are not at the moment searching for the correct scheme. — Saul Kripke

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch. — 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

Proper names are rigid designators. — Saul 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

I'm a sucker for gag reels and teaser trailers for new seasons. One of the great parts of panels, especially on a show like 'Supernatural,' which can be so dark, it's fun to get up there and laugh and remember we're only telling a story. Seeing Eric Kripke and Ben Edlund up there being so funny always makes me laugh. — Jared Padalecki

Family don't end with blood — Eric Kripke

For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain. — Saul 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

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

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

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

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

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

In fact, of course, I hold that propositions that contemporary
philosophers would properly count as 'empirical' can be necessary and be known to be such. — Saul Kripke

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

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

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting. — Saul 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

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

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

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