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
butterfly past logical
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.
sexy fun character
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.
painful
It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.
grateful heart kids
Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.
chickens
I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.
stones cocktails napkins
When you start a show, the plans are not set in stone. They're really mutable, cocktail napkin sketches.
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.
urban-legends obsession lifelong
I've had a lifelong obsession with urban legends and American folklore.
stories ends
I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.
iphone water blackberries
Beyond all our Blackberries and iPhones, we're dangerously separated from our food and water supplies.
shotguns drivers picks
Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole.
half vanilla cold
Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.
girl horse sunset
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
culture pop-culture pops
It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.