70 Quotes by Eric Kripke

Amanda: I guess if you can have faith you can’t just have it when the miracles happen. You have to have it when they don’t.

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.

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?”

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

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.

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

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.

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

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