Kevin Williamson
Kevin Williamson
Kevin Meade Williamsonis an American screenwriter, filmmaker, and actor, best known as the creator of the TV series Dawson's Creek, The Vampire Diaries, The Followingand Stalker. He is also widely known for developing and writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream, as well as its sequels Scream 2 and Scream 4. He also wrote the screenplay for the films I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Faculty, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, and Cursed...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth14 March 1965
CityNew Bern, NC
CountryUnited States of America
That's the thing about the script, is that how these people were affected by their decision, and how it could ultimately kill them, and I mean literally.
I just try to write what I want to see. I tried to do that with 'Scream' and with 'Summer.' I just try to tell a compelling story.
He has to live and breathe with his actions and realize, 'Oh, my God, this is not what I want.'
I had this horrible teacher who told me that I would never be a writer,
I think the age of disappointment is coming much earlier, where an adult figure -- a parent, a teacher or something -- truly disappoints you for the first time, at a much earlier age. I think when I was young, it happened in my late teens. I think today it's happening when you're 8 or 9 or 10 years old. And I think it's everlasting.
One thing led to another, ... I went to bed that night so spooked I was having nightmares and I woke up at like three or four in the morning, and I started writing the opening scene to 'Scream.'
I tried to fit a little humour into it when I thought it was appropriate, but it just gets uglier and uglier as July 4th approaches.
There's going to be a trailer in the theater like this coming summer, and it is just going to be a black screen, and all you will hear is that music.
I was watching this Barbara Walters special on the Gainesville (Florida) murders, ... And I was getting so spooked. I was being scared out of my mind. During the commercial break, I heard a noise. And I had to go search the house. And I went into the living room and a window was open. And I'd been in this house for two days. I'd never noticed the window open. So I got really scared. So I went to the kitchen, got a butcher knife, got the mobile phone. I called a buddy of mine,
Scream' became a huge hit, and then everyone started calling, I started getting a lot of work, a lot of offers, ... Dawson Creek.
The setting of the situation is really cool, and it's very interesting. Jamie is dying to do this; she loved the idea. Can't you just imagine?
And I sat down. And I didn't write another word for 10 years. And when I wrote, and the first thing -- 'Killing Mrs. Tingle' is my first script.
The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.
Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.