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Eric Kripke

(1974) Screenwriter United States

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Eric Kripke is a screenwriter from the United States, best known for The Essential Supernatural On The Road With Sam And Dean Winchester.

Quick Facts About Eric Kripke

Born: April 24, 1974
Nationality: United States
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: The Essential Supernatural On The Road With Sam And Dean Winchester

About Eric Kripke

Eric Kripke is an American writer and television producer. Kripke came to prominence in the late 2000s for creating The WB/CW fantasy drama series Supernatural (2005–2020). He served as the showrunner during the first five seasons of the series. Since then, he has created and/or produced a number of television series including Revolution (2012–2014), Timeless (2016–2018), and The Boys (2019–2026).

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Eric Kripke

I'm not a fan of endless mystery in storytelling - I like to know where the mythology's going; I like to get…

Aggressive

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Kids aint supposed to be grateful! They're supposed to eat your food, break your heart.

Be grateful

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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…

Belief

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If I had a worldview, and I don't know if I do,but if I did, it's one that's intensely humanistic.

Humanistic

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Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

Burden

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At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families…

Alive

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In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that…

Deer

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When I am kicking around show ideas, or really any idea, usually an image comes to me. I don't really start with…

Character

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I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.

Bad habit

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Your half-caf, double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

Cold

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I like to tell stories that have beginnings, middles and ends.

Ends

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Your half-caff double vanilla latte is getting cold over here, Francis.

Cold

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There are so many shows out there, so you really need to work hard to separate yourself and cut through the static.

Cutting

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I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.

Chickens

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

Blackberries

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"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…

Believe

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It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

Bigs

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We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have…

Butterfly

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

Culture

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When you do 22 episodes of a network show, it's incredibly useful to have a format that gives you a jumping-off point…

Episodes

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I've always said at the beginning of every single season of the show when I was running the show in the writers'…

Ems

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People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Contact

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I like to find ideas where the research is going to be fun.

Fun

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I'm mostly coming at the superhero legends as an outsider, I know them and I studied them but I didn't really grow…

Growing up

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

Folklore

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