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Kevin D. Williamson is a mysterious writer and critic, born on September 18, 1972. His professional category is unclear, but his work covers a wide range of areas including politics, society, and culture.

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“This is the Golden Age of Fame Whores”

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Book:The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

Source: The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob Politics

“Even as a child, I just leaned towards the scary. I remember seeing Halloween, for the first time. I snuck into the theater and was sitting there with a group of friends in the front row, and I turned back to look at the audience. They were screaming and interacting with the screen and were interacting with Jamie Lee Curtis as she walked through that horrible night. I just thought, "I want to do that."”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“If you can get the audience to talk to the screen, I just thought that was so cool, and I wanted to do that. And I just leaned towards the scary and the thriller. I find it very emotional. I want to make emotional horror. If I can make you cry, than you have a full experience.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“The thing that makes me feel young, honestly, is making television. It's the only thing that excites me, the way that you get excited when you're a kid. That's why I still do it.”

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“If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state.”

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“Detroit's political leadership is a parasite that has outgrown its host.”

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“It is one of history's great ironies that capitalists built decent and humane societies on the basis of an amoral approach to the economics of pricing, whereas socialists built exploitative and inhumane societies on the basis of a morally inflamed approach to economics.”

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Book:The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

Source: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

“Benign environmentalists are opposed to pollution, as all sensible people are; malign environmentalists are opposed to energy and most of what it enables.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“The great scandal of American life is that we pay for German levels of government without enjoying the related benefits.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“I look at it [Scream movie] and think, wow, I can't believe I wrote that at such a young age. I also look at it and go, ohhh ouch, that dialogue, whoa.”

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“I'm always going to look and refer to things and remember things differently than perhaps a real or honest viewer can. I'm tainted with knowing too much. But I still very much love it.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“Horror films had died a little bit before Scream came around. That was one of the reasons I wrote it. I wanted to write something that wasn't being made right now and maybe sell if I come up with a new horror film. Because no one is watching those movies. Let's do it. That was my whole goal, and it paid off. I feel like it's never stopped.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“I do believe there's been a lull of slasher films. There have been a few that I guess would fall under the genre of slasher. Like You're Next, which I thought was fun. There have been a few really good slasher films, but for the most part, that's sort of died away at the moment.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“I'm a huge fan of horror. I can't handle all the blood and gore, but that's what The Following was meant to be. It was meant to be a genre show, a little movie, a little scary genre film every week. That was our goal. That's what Kevin Bacon and I wanted to do.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“A lot of it is just waking up and putting one foot in front of the other and going where I just go, a natural progression. The other thing is I do have a lot of ideas. TV seems to be where it happens faster, quicker. You are trying to get a movie off the ground, and it's very difficult. One movie takes two years to make”

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“I like to multitask. I love the process of the storytelling in television. I love the serial. Even my stab at doing a procedural show was still very much serialized. I'm such a serialized storyteller. I feel like the story never ends. I want it to go and go and go. However, with cable and streaming now it's endless. You can do anything.”

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“I love to go back and write and direct another film one day, but that's on the backburner for now because I'm involved with so much television at the moment.”

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Author:Kevin D. Williamson

“Yeah, I love A Nightmare on Elm Street. I was just a fan. I was such an avid fan. I remember being on the set talking about a sequence and he started asking me about maybe staging it a little different. I realized - I think he was shocked that I knew his work so well - I remember I started going like, "Why don't we do it like The Last House on the Left, where you had the girl on the ground..."”

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About the Author

Born: September 18, 1972
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Quotes: 18

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to SocialismRelated source material

The Smallest Minority: Independent Thinking in the Age of Mob PoliticsRelated source material

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