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
Typically in horror films the character just services the plot, and you really are just going from 'point a' to 'point b,' just so that you can end up at 'point c.' They are just sort of stick characters. That's just not interesting to me.
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.
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,
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.
Damon: "If you're going to be bad, be bad with a purpose or else you're not worth forgiving.
I'm so lucky that 'The Vampire Diaries' happened. I'm so lucky that Warner Bros. pays me money. You have no idea. I should be on a fishing boat with my dad.
And that's what I liked about it, because they are, in the beginning, your little beautiful stock figures, who then make a decision to preserve their futures, but the decision they make isn't completely right, and it destroys their futures.
What I loved about 'Summer' was that they were these four bright kids with a wonderful future. In a way, she was the one with the brains, and then you have the beauty queen and the jock and the introvert.