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Eric Kripke Biography

Eric Kripke (born April 24, 1974) is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is the creator of The WB (now The CW) series Supernatural, the NBC series Revolution and more recently, the NBC series Timeless.

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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 up with them, but I think it allows me to sort of analyze them in a way that's kind of interesting.

Growing Up, Interesting, Sort, Studied, Think, Thinking

Let's be honest, any show will live or die based on how good the characters are, how good the actors are, how complicated the relationships are, how grounded they are and how much heart they have.

Actors, Character, Good, Grounded, Heart

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.

Aggressive, Clear, Fans, Loyalty, Pay, Reward

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.

Character, Like, Space, Takes, Two, Writing

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. "

Beginning, Ems, Lasts, Running, Season, Single

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

Aint, Grateful, Heart, Kids

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.

Across, Hero, Movies, Running, Runs, Thinking

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

Cocktails, Mutable, Napkin, Napkins, Plans, Stones

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. "

Believe, Good, People, Say, Scared, Thing

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

Book, Comic, Geek, Hero, Kind, Super

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

Big, Bigs, Painful, Personal

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.

Cause, Fun, Heart, Like, Sexy, Storytelling

Television showrunners are a foolishly optimistic bunch.

Bunch, Foolishly, Optimistic, Showrunners, Television

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

Culture, Hard, Pop, Pop Culture, Pops, References

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

Asking, Broken Heart, Falling In Love, Hard, Heart

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

Eye, Eye Contact, People, Simply

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

Cold, Double, Half, Latte, Vanilla

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.

Character, Fun, Graphic, Head, Thinking, Useful

You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.

Adorable, Funny, Think, Thinking

I really am a very research-oriented writer.

Research, Writer

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