Diary of the Dead (2007)

Joshua Close: Jason Creed

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• Looter : What the fuck are you doing here?

  Jason : What the fuck are you doing here?

  Looter : [holding TV]  I'm just stealing shit. But you... what's a guy with a video camera doing in the women's dorm, huh?

• Jason : The camera can see. And what the camera sees, the audience will see.

  Tony Ravello : What fucking audience?

  Jason : There's always an audience for horror; believable horror. But who's gonna believe a mummy if his makeup's all unglued?

  Tony Ravello : Who's gonna believe a mummy in the first place?

• Jason : Say your name.

  Debra : Jason, if you don't know my name by now, then get your clothes out of my closet, okay?

• Jason : Say who you are, Eliot.

  Eliot Stone : You just did. I'm Eliot.

  Jason : Tell us more.

  Eliot Stone : Eliot Stone, Harrisburg, PA. And I'm here with you fine people because... I don't know... I'd like to get home, too. It's on the way. I'm hoping you'll be so kind as to drop me off.

• Jason : [after running over three zombies]  Mary, how do you feel about what just happened?

  Mary Dexter : [sobbing]  How do you think I feel?

  Debra : [to Mary]  They were already dead, okay? You didn't do anything wrong.

  Tony Ravello : Listen to me, unless you're Jesus fucking Christ, you don't stand up and walk around after you're dead!

• Andrew Maxwell : There will always be people like you, wanting to document, wanting to record some sort of diary.

  Jason : Me? You're the one who put the camera in my hands. You're the one who made me want to do this.

  Andrew Maxwell : Not this. This is a diary of cruelty. And in wartime, when the enemy can be marked as this son of a bitch or that son of a bitch, then cruelty... becomes justified.

• Jason : All that's left is to record what's happening for whoever remains when it's over.

• Jason : [to Ridley, who's playing a mummy]  How many times have I told you? Dead things don't move fast. You're a corpse, for Christ's sakes. If you run that fast, your ankles are gonna snap off.

• Debra : What is this about, Jason?

  Jason : I don't know. I just... If this turns out to be a big thing, I just want to record it, okay?

• Jason : Fuck. Battery's almost dead.

  Tracy Thurman : Yeah, that's not all.

• Jason : [as a zombie approaches]  Shoot him in the head!

• Debra : [recording Jason]  Tell us your name.

  Jason : Uh...

  Debra : Say it.

  Jason : Deb, come on.

  Debra : Say it.

  Jason : Give me a break. Jay... Jason. Jason Creed.

  Debra : You see how it feels to have a camera shoved in your face? To have to answer stupid questions when people are dying all around you? You see how it feels?

• Stranger : What the hell's with that camera anyway?

  Jason : Uh, home movies.

  Stranger : Who's gonna be left to watch?

• Jason : All over the world, people learning how to survive by seeing how we've managed to survive.

• Jason : Fuck. $100,000 education, I can't find my way out of a fucking warehouse.

• Jason : [to Ridley]  See? I told you dead things move slow!

• Jason : [handing Debra camera]  Shoot me.

• Jason : Hi, my name is Jay... Jason Creed, and I have been given the opportunity, given the gift to be able to document the events that have suddenly landed in my lap. And I just want to let you guys know, the audience know, that I'm gonna do my best to capture the truth with me and my friends. There's gonna be no fakeness. I'm gonna go after everything. Really raw, really real. And I'm going to do the best job I can. And I'm just really excited to be given this opportunity. And I am not going to fuck it up.