Quotes by Eric Kripke

Eric Kripke

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

Grateful

Heart

Kids

Let’s be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.

Actors

Character

Heart

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer’s perspective.

Burden

Mythology

Perspective

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

Mystery

People

People simply don’t make eye contact anymore.

Eye

Eye Contact

People

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Bunch

Optimistic

Television

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

Cutting

Hard Work

Needs

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

Girl

Horse

Sunset

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?”

Character

Ideas

What If

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it’s incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

Giving

Jumping

Stories

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Asking

Broken Heart

Brother

Bunch

Burden

Character

Chickens

Cold

Cutting

Ems

Ends

Eye

Eye Contact

Falling In Love

Fun

Girl

Giving

Grateful

Guy

Half

Hard Work

Heart

Hero

Horse

Ideas

Interesting

Jumping

Kids

Killing

Lasts

Loyalty

Mystery

Mythology

Needs

Optimistic

People

Perspective

Research

Rewards

Running

Stories

Sunset

Television

Thinking

Two

Vanilla

Way

What If

Writing

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Quotes by Eric Kripke

Eric Kripke

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

Let’s be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer’s perspective.

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

People simply don’t make eye contact anymore.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

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?”

When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it’s incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point for a story.

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