Kevin Williamson

American screenwriter, director, and producer · United States · On the map · Writers · Born 1965 · age 61

Kevin Meade Williamson is an American screenwriter and filmmaker. He is known for writing the screenplay for the slasher film Scream (1996) - which launched the Scream franchise - along with those for Scream 2 (1997) and Scream 4 (2011), and writing and directing Scream 7 (2026).

Kevin Williamson is read about 816 times a day, in 31 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 9 November 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 400 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?

Compare Claim

A life in dates

2020“When things go sideways in this unhappy world, nobody cries out in the dead of night: “For the love of God, somebody call the Dutch!”In their wordsMay 2020"Governance Envy" (May 2020), National ReviewRead the whole statement

2019“Monkeys in India are a gigantic pain in the ass and a genuine menace, too: Every now and then, they kill somebody, or maim somebody pretty good.”In their words27 July 2019"How Twitter radicals are controlling corporate America" (27 July 2019), The New York PostRead the whole statement

“Jerk off, fling poo, jerk off, fling poo, jerk, fling, jerk, fling. I hate monkeys. This is their story.”In their words27 July 2019"How Twitter radicals are controlling corporate America" (27 July 2019), The New York PostRead the whole statement

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies.” So said Abraham Lincoln in much more difficult times than these.”In their words21 July 2019"Trump's Omar Comments and Our Eroding Sense of Citizenship" (21 July 2019), National ReviewRead the whole statement

“The broad movement oriented toward advocacy for sexual minorities has become more hysterical and more insistent as the stakes have in general declined.”In their words11 June 2019"One Flag is Enough" (11 June 2019), National ReviewRead the whole statement

“I am grateful to the men and women of our military for their service, but armies are only expedients, necessary evils.”In their wordsMarch 2019"The Nationalism Show" (March 2019), National ReviewRead the whole statement

1965Born14 March 1965

People around Kevin

Close ties

Also in Deutsch Français

Media & music

Photos 1

In their own words 4

Kevin Williamson

4 statements, newest first

We start from scratch, every generation. History does not bend inevitably toward justice, or freedom, or decency, or even stability.
1 July 2020 · "The End of (Whig) History" (1 July 2020), National Review, Own words
After about 300,000 years of anatomically modern Homo sapiens, here we are again: monkeys, albeit monkeys with Wi-Fi. You could try being human beings. You could.
27 July 2019 · "How Twitter radicals are controlling corporate America" (27 July 2019), The New York Post, Own words
America is not an idea or a collection of documents, but neither is it a closed ethnolinguistic set.
21 July 2019 · "Trump's Omar Comments and Our Eroding Sense of Citizenship" (21 July 2019), National Review, Own words

Wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0

Awards

Saturn Award for Best Writing

About this person

He is also known for creating the WB teen drama series Dawson's Creek (1998-2003), the CW supernatural drama series The Vampire Diaries (2009-2017), the Fox crime thriller series The Following (2013-2015) and the CBS All Access thriller series Tell Me a Story (2018-2020).

Country

United States