Eric Kripke Quotes & Sayings

#1. Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

#2. What would you rather have, peace or freedom?

#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

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#6. 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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#7. People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

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#8. Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.

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#9. 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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#10. 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

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#11. 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.

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#12. Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

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

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#14. I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.

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#15. 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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#16. 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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#17. It's the gig. You're covered in blood until you're covered in your own blood.

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#18. 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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#19. People love a good mystery; I understand that.

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#20. 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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#21. It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

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#22. 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."

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#23. It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.

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#24. 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.

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#25. Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

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

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#27. 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.

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