Kevin Williamson

“I write what I know. I write about my own fears.”

“I've always been a fan of the teen genre. I'm a fan of a good teen movie.”

“I always look for the humanity in the monster.”

“I wanted to write a movie that I would want to go see, because I'm a horror-movie geek.”

“Pop culture is my life. It's what I breathe.”

“In the world of horror, you're always trying to find a new way to scare people.”

“I think every writer has a little bit of every character in them.”

“Wes Craven was the master of horror. He was the one that taught me what suspense is.”

“Horror is a great metaphor for the anxieties of your life.”

“I'm a writer first. I'm a storyteller. And that's all I want to do.”

“Dawson's Creek was my goodbye to my childhood. It was my way of saying, 'This is how I wish my childhood had been.'”

“What I learned from Wes [Craven] is you can't go to the cheap scare.”

“The success of 'Scream' was that it was a new way of doing a horror film. It was a new way of looking at it.”

“The best part of writing is the discovery. It's that moment when you're writing and a character does something you didn't expect.”