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

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Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your f... by Eric Kripke

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

grateful heart kids

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

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

broken-heart falling-in-love asking

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch. by Eric Kripke

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

optimistic bunch television

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.

butterfly causes past

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

napkins cocktails stones

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.

plot want rooms

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?"

what-if character ideas

People simply don't make eye contact anymore. by Eric Kripke

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

eye-contact eye people

People love a good mystery; I understand that. by Eric Kripke

People love a good mystery; I understand that.

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspectiv... by Eric Kripke

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

mythology burden perspective

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.

growing-up interesting thinking

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's... by Eric Kripke

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

humanistic worldview knows

I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American fol... by Eric Kripke

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

lifelong urban-legends obsession

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

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

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 heart character

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

supplies iphone water

If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do, but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic. [That worldview] is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that's the only thing that gives life meaning. 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.

guy brother giving

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole. by Eric Kripke

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.

shotguns drivers picks

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

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

You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable. by Eric Kripke

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

adorable thinking