Eric Kripke famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Broken Heart #Falling In Love #Asking
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

#Loyalty #Fans #Pay
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

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

#Stones #Cocktails #Napkins
Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.
-- Eric Kripke

#Optimistic #Television #Bunch
People simply don't make eye contact anymore.
-- Eric Kripke

#Eye #People #Eye Contact
People love a good mystery; I understand that.
-- Eric Kripke

#People #Mystery
Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.
-- Eric Kripke

#Perspective #Burden #Mythology
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

#Worldview #Humanistic
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
-- Eric Kripke

#Legends #Urban #Obsession
I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
-- Eric Kripke

#Stories #Ends
Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
-- Eric Kripke

#Iphone #Water #Supplies
If I had a worldview, and I donâ€™t know if I do, but if I did, itâ€™s one thatâ€™s intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and thatâ€™s the only thing that gives life meaning. Religion and gods and beliefs â€” 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, itâ€™s about human connections.
-- Eric Kripke

#Brother #Giving #Guy
Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.
-- Eric Kripke

#Grateful #Heart #Kids
Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
-- Eric Kripke

#Shotguns #Drivers
You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.
-- Eric Kripke

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

#Half #Vanilla #Cold
We say itâ€™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 youâ€™re going to have cowboys, they need a trusty horse. â€”Eric Kripke on the decision to add the Impala
-- Eric Kripke

#Girl #Horse #Sunset
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

#Crazy #Character #People

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