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When you do 22 episodes of a ...

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

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

Your half-caff double vanilla...

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

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

In TV and movies, you kill yo...

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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

We are definitely living in t...

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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

What I think networks do so w...

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.

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I'm kind of a comic book geek...

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

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

I'm mostly coming at the supe...

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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

It's hard to make a lot of po...

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

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

At the end of day, people are...

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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

Every so often you want to ma...

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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

I've always said at the begin...

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."

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If I had a worldview, and I d...

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 worldview] is that the only thing that matters is family and personal connection, and that's the only thing that gives life meaning. 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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

A show is going to be good an...

A show is going to be good and fun to work on, if the research is interesting.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

I've never counted my chicken...

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

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

Let's be honest, any show wil...

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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

When I am kicking around show...

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?"

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

When you're writing TV or mov...

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.

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The ability to get inside you...

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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

Kids aint supposed to be grat...

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

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

Religion and gods and beliefs...

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.

Eric Kripke 19 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....