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
beliefs family gods guy human might next religion
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.
chickens
I've never counted my chickens before they've hatched.
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.
running people killing
I have a bad habit, in the shows that I run, of killing off the people that I love.
growing-up thinking interesting
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.
book hero kind
I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.
running hero thinking
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.
fun character thinking
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 writing two
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.
running lasts rooms
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."
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?"
believe people scared
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."
culture pop-culture pops
It's hard to make a lot of pop culture references where there's no pop culture.
character heart honest
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.