Eric Kripke Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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.

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?'

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

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

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

"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."

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.

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.

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

What I think networks do so well are big, fun, accessible, invite everybody into the tent kinds of storytelling, akin to an early Spielberg movie or a Michael Crichton novel. That's not to say that there aren't scary parts 'cause there are, and that there aren't sexy parts and edgy parts, just like early Spielberg would have, but there's a lot of heart, a lot of emotion and complicated characters.

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

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.