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. Eric Kripke More Quotes by Eric Kripke More Quotes From Eric Kripke Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart. Eric Kripke grateful heart kids It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again. Eric Kripke broken-heart falling-in-love asking Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch. Eric Kripke 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. Eric Kripke butterfly causes past When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches. Eric Kripke 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. Eric Kripke plot want rooms 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 rewards loyalty way 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?" Eric Kripke what-if character ideas People simply don't make eye contact anymore. Eric Kripke eye-contact eye people People love a good mystery; I understand that. Eric Kripke mystery people Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective. Eric Kripke 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. Eric Kripke growing-up interesting thinking 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 humanistic worldview knows I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore. Eric Kripke lifelong urban-legends obsession I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends. Eric Kripke ends stories 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. Eric Kripke actors heart character Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies. Eric Kripke 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. Eric Kripke guy brother giving Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole. Eric Kripke shotguns drivers picks I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek. Eric Kripke geek hero book
