Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis. Eric Kripke More Quotes by Eric Kripke More Quotes From Eric Kripke You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable. Eric Kripke adorable thinking 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 Eric Kripke sunset horse girl 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 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. Eric Kripke sexy heart fun There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static. Eric Kripke cutting hard-work needs I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched. Eric Kripke chickens A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting. Eric Kripke research fun interesting I really am a very research-oriented writer. Eric Kripke research I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun. Eric Kripke research fun ideas 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 jumping stories giving It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture. Eric Kripke pop-culture pops 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." Eric Kripke scared believe people 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. Eric Kripke the-end-of-the-day real people I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love. Eric Kripke killing running people In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking. Eric Kripke hero running thinking The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking. Eric Kripke fun character thinking When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image. Eric Kripke writing character two 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." Eric Kripke ems lasts running It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big. Eric Kripke bigs painful
