Eric Kripke
Eric Kripke
Eric Kripkeis an American television writer, director, and producer. He is the creator of The WBseries Supernatural and more recently the NBC series Revolution...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth24 April 1974
CityToledo, OH
CountryUnited States of America
running people killing
I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.
shotguns drivers picks
Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
brother giving guy
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.
iphone water blackberries
Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
real people the-end-of-the-day
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.
stories ends
I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
urban-legends obsession lifelong
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
worldview humanistic ifs
If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.
character ideas what-if
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?"
loyalty pay rewards
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.
stories maps want
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.
stones cocktails napkins
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.