'Scream' became a huge hit, and then everyone started calling, I started getting a lot of work, a lot of offers, ... Dawson Creek. |
[Williams says in the upcoming issue of USA Weekend that she's concerned about the loss of] Dawson ... they keep challenging us. |
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. |
Dawson's |
He has to live and breathe with his actions and realize, 'Oh, my God, this is not what I want.' |
I don't look at teens as teens. I think maybe that's the whole trick to what I do, is that they're just smart, sophisticated adult characters. And they happen to be 15. |
I had this horrible teacher who told me that I would never be a writer, |
I promise you, safety is a big concern for us. |
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. |
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, |
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.' |