Zero Day (2003) - Quotes

Dual Perspectives in a Shared Environment

Taglines: Two kids. One School.

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Empowerment Message from High School Experience

Taglines: In high school, you're told you can do anything you put your mind to.

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A Tense Decision Amidst Police Presence

Andre: [as police arrive] Look out the window. That is a lotta fuckin cops. C'mon, let's go get a couple.

Cal: No.

Andre: C'mon, let's go!

Cal: I'm done.

Andre: Why- how are you done?

Cal: Andre, you're done.

Andre: I'm not- I don't- I'm not done.

Cal: It's all right, we'll just... would you rather get shot by the cops, or, by yourself?

Andre: Guess you're right.

Cal: You guess or you know?

Andre: I know. You're right.

Cal: One, two-

Andre: Wait. I can't do it. I just can't do it.

Cal: Andre-

Andre: I can't do it.

Cal: You don't have to think about it.

Andre: One, two, three-

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A Moment of Humor Among Friends

Andre: It's Greg! Greg, sit down, man! Relax.

Greg: Please don't hurt me, sir!

Andre: [laughs] Sir! I like that.

Cal: [chuckles] He called you sir!

Andre: [starts to walk away] I can't kill you; you're too pathetic. You're gonna live today, man. You're gonna live!

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Friendship and Support in Difficult Times

Andre: Dude, I want you to know, like- I couldn't have done this with anyone else. Like, I don't know what would've happened to me if-if we hadn't been friends.

Cal: I don't think that, uh, I could've done this with anyone else, either.

Andre: [''After a brief pause''] Ready?

Cal: Aim.

Andre: [[light] Let's get this shit done. Let's kick the tires and ] the fires.

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The Call for a Duel

Cal: You know, in medieval times, if someone insulted you, you took your sword out, and you dueled them, and you killed them.

Andre: And make no mistake, we've been insulted. Now it's time for the duel.

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Perceptions of Violence in Interpersonal Relationships

Cal: Andre's the violent one.

Rachel: I just heard you say Andre's violent.

Cal: I didn't say that. He's not violent, either.

Rachel: I don't know. Sometimes, the way he talks about people, and the way he interacts with everyone, is a little-

Cal: You mean, like, you?

Rachel: Not me all the time, he's just a little off beat, a little strange.

Cal: What, do you think he's a bad influence on me, Mom? I mean, he doesn't like you either, so it's okay.

Rachel: That's all right, I don't really mind that much. It's just that- I don't know. You hang out with him a lot, and I just don't want you- becoming like him.

Cal: Why? What do you think is "him"?

Rachel: He has a lot of anger.

Cal: Problems, or just anger in general?

Rachel: Well, he probably has anger because he has problems that I don't know about, you know?

Cal: He doesn't- his dad doesn't beat him, or anything like that.

Rachel: Like, I'm your friend and all, and he's your friend. So he should at least try and be semi-courteous to me, but he's really not.

Cal: He's a dick?

Rachel: Yeah, a lot of the time.

Cal: I guess I just never conflict with him. Who would you consider the leader of the Andre-Cal Army of Two? Is it me or Andre?

Rachel: Andre.

Cal: You think it's Andre?

Rachel: I-I don't know. When you're with him, you're just- you're different than you are now.

Cal: How am I now?

Rachel: Now, you're the Cal that I've known for a really long time. And when you're with him, you're, like, Andre Number Two.

Cal: Wait, why do you think that? I'm not the- he's not Cal Number Two and I'm Cal Number One. How do you know he isn't copying off, my style, yo?

Rachel: [''Laughs''] Unless you have some kind of evil locked inside that I've never seen before-

Cal: Oh, I lock inside. Nobody sees it. I keep it from everyone.

Life's Unfair Realities on Your Birthday

Andre's Father: [[hate; [life] You know, I ] to be the guy to break it to you, on the eighteenth birthday of all days, but, ] isn't always fair, you know?

Isolation in Action: A Solemn Admission

Calvin Gabriel: We acted alone. We obtained the weapons alone. And nobody knew that we were going to do this.

Embrace Life with Intensity and Urgency

Andre Kriegman: [[live; [die] Live fast, ] hard, and ] by any combination of those two.

The Need for Justice in an Unfair World

Andre Kriegman: Life isn't fair, so we gotta even the score a little.

Value of Life and Awareness

Andre Kriegman: We're not trying to waste anyone's lives. We're trying to make people realize what they should value.

The Burden of Unseen Signs

Andre Kriegman: [[love; [brother; [student] When our parents find these tapes, they're gonna think, "Oh, they were right down there in the basement. We could've known, we could've stopped them." It's not your fault, we ] you. Could you blame anyone for not noticing? I mean, who's gonna want to think their ], their son, their ], their employee, their peer- is gonna do something like this? There are no reasons and you're all gonna look for em but you're not gonna find em!

Seeking Attention vs. Genuine Intentions

Andre Kriegman: If you think about it, anybody who's done anything like this in the past has had a website up, or they've done something stupid to attract attention to themselves- mostly that's all they wanted, was attention. We're not like that.