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

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

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.

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

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

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

I really am a very research-oriented writer.