Eric Kripke Quotes

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

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

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

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

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

I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

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

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?"

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."

We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

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

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

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

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

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

"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."

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

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

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Family don't end with blood

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

Saving people hunting things. The family business

What would you rather have, peace or freedom?