Dawson Leery quotes from Dawson's Creek

Dawson

I... think I'm going back to California. 'Cause I don't really work here anymore.

Joey

I'm sorry, Dawson.

Dawson

Things happen.

Todd

Ok, shag wits, to the car! Let's go! Chop, bloody chop! Or am I gonna have to throw cold water on you both?

Dawson

I think he's mad.

Real mad.

Todd

For the record, never let it be said that Todd Carr is a man who's not in love with being in love. I think both my movies and my life reflect my deep and abiding commitment to getting two good-looking young people together and having a bit of fun now and again. However... as leery here bloody well knows...

Dawson

You're also a man who's in love with sleep.

Todd

To the car. Now.

Dawson

Remember this feeling, George. Remember what it was like to make a film about something you loved, the confidence to do it your way, control your vision, keep it your own. I mean that's.....I miss that.

Yeah. You do sort of have the stink of a burnout talent on you.

Dawson

I got 3 credit cards in the mail last week, maxed them out in, like, a day. Got lights, cameras, this awesome sound equipment. I'm going completely overboard, but I don't care. I'm talking a mile a minute. I haven't even asked you what brought you to Capeside.

Pacey

Man. Ha! Being in this room, it just takes me back to a whole other era. When the future was a clean slate for all of us, you know?

Dawson

Well, the room may have gone back in time, but I think you and I have moved ahead rather nicely. It's about all the obstacles we went through when we were kids. We both ended up doing exactly what we wanted to do.

Pacey

Well, there was that brief period of time I toyed with the idea of being a rodeo clown, but I guess this'll do. Heh heh.

Dawson

But you made something of yourself, Pace, and now you're making something out of me.

Dawson

It's weird, huh? This room used to be the official meeting place where we'd discuss what happened that day. And now it's just a film set, and I don't even know what happened this year.

Joey

Yeah. I was kind of hoping I could just climb up the ladder and... magically fill in all the lost time.

Dawson

How's that working for you?

Joey

Not so easy.

Dawson

Yeah.

Joey

Maybe I was gone for too long.

Dawson

Well, we'll piece it together between the two of us then, right? The lost year of Dawson and Joey.

Joey

It wasn't easy.

Dawson

What wasn't?

Joey

Not talking to you. Maybe it seemed like it was. And I guess it just... became routine, just another thing that I didn't do. Well, like shooting heroin or driving drunk.

Dawson

Wow, I'm up there with the dangerous activities.

Joey

Or casual sex. Dawson, for so long, you were the only person in the whole world I wanted to be with. Then somehow you became my only one-night stand.

Dawson

I never meant for it to be like that.

Joey

I know. I know. Maybe being in this room makes it easier. Having it set up this way, you know, I'm so familiar, and... seems insane not to talk. And sometimes the hardest things to say are the things that... really matter.

Dawson

Hmm. Why do you think I've spent years trying to write an entire screenplay about you?

Joey

I read it in one sitting.

Dawson

Ok. I hope you don't think that I gave it to you so that you could just say all the obligatory nice things.

Joey

And why would I feel obligated?

Dawson

Exactly, because if I can't get an honest opinion from the girl who loathes me more than anyone else in the world, who can I trust, right?

Joey

You've always been this devilishly clever.

Dawson

Well... yeah. But... uh, I got--I got-- I wanted you to read it because... well, you're really the only person in the world who can tell me if I got it right this time.

Joey

You grew up, Dawson. You grew up. I always wanted to think that you were this hopeless dreamer and I was the adult that escaped. But I didn't escape anything, not really.

Dawson

Sure you did. You got out of Capeside. Wasn't that the original plan?

Joey

Couldn't escape myself, could I? You were right. So much of what I was fighting was growing up. And I figured out this past year that it's hard for me... to talk about sex, to talk about... getting close with someone. And maybe... I'm not supposed to lose myself. Now it's not part of the plan. But then again, I never thought that losing you was part of the plan, either.

Dawson

I think sometimes... you have to lose somebody completely before you can figure out what they really mean to you. I missed you, Jo.

Joey

You got it right this time, Dawson. I missed us.

Dawson

Cut, cut. Audrey, you're gonna have to take the robe off.

Audrey

You're kidding me.

Dawson

I thought we'd be in tight enough so we wouldn't see it, but it's right there.

Patrick

This is, like, my dream day.

Audrey

Ok, Dawson, what if I just show a little shoulder?

Dawson

Problem is, I need bare skin.

Jen

You need, like, spaghetti straps.

Joey

She's right. You have to have something to match the wardrobe Audrey would be wearing if Pacey junior hadn't walked into her chest with a jelly doughnut.

Dawson

We don't have an E.T.A. on that dress yet, do we?

Jack

Yes. Spin cycle. Your mom says it's gonna be about, uh, 20 minutes.

Patrick

Uh, excuse me. Is there any scenario in which she could just take off all her clothes? You know, at least for one take? Because then, you know, I feel like I could really give you an appropriate on-camera react—

Patrick

Aah!

Joey

Can I have 5 minutes alone with this guy?

Patrick

You don't know how long I dreamed of hearing you say that.

Todd

[sits in the Director’s chair] Oh, my apologies, sir. Force of habit.

Dawson

No, stay there. Stay there. You bailed my ass out today.

Todd

That's right, you little bugger. My bloody dogs are barkin'.

Dawson

Makes you feel for the little people, doesn't it? Makes you wanna go back and apologize to every crew member you ever threw a hissy fit at, I bet.

Todd

Hell, no. Makes me wanna produce.

Joey

We’ve been through so much Dawson. So many good times and bad. When I loved you, you loved Jen. When you loved me, I needed to be on my own. So I left you for Jack. Then he realized he was gay.

Dawson

And then I convinced you to turn your dad in for trafficking cocaine and...you said you’d never speak to me again.

Joey

But I did. I offered myself to you at that party, after you crashed your dad’s boat.

Dawson

And I refused...for some reason. And so you fell for Pacey.

Joey

And years passed... until finally here we are... saying, "I do." The way it should be... the only way it can be for star-crossed, ill-fated soul mates. So, I do.

Dawson

I do, too.

Dawson

Well, you know that list of hardest things to live through? You just got bumped again. Ah. I'm so out of touch, Jo. I've... I've wasted so much time living in my little Hollywood bubble even now, my mind's on my work. I hate to admit that. Show's calling every 5 seconds. The network wants a script, which I haven't finished yet, because I don't know how. I don't have an ending. I can't even think straight enough to write one.

Joey

Dawson, this is a time of extreme stress.

Dawson

It's not just that. When I saw Jen for the first time the other with Amy my first thought was, when did Jen have a baby? I forgot Jen had a baby. I forgot I knew that. What-- what's wrong with me?

Joey

You cannot feel guilty about that, Dawson. My office is calling every 5 seconds. It's--it's called life, and we just have to deal. Deal with—

Dawson

With what, though? It's not Shakespeare. I'm not writing Schindler's List. I don't even know why I care so much. I'm no Spielberg. The guy won't even take a meeting with me. Would he?

Joey

Stop it.

Dawson

She's dying. Jo, she's gonna die, and all I can think about is some frickin' ending to some stupid TV show. I keep thinking there's gonna be time for the rest of it, but it--it--it runs out.

Joey

Yes, it does.

Dawson

Nothing in my life feels real anymore. I've lost touch with my family, my friends, you... and you and me together is the only thing that ever made sense to me, and I forgot that... until I saw you, and then it came back, what we were, and we're not even together.

Joey

Do you not watch The Creek? We're together every Wednesday at 8:00. Dawson, you wrote a show about us.

Dawson

And that's the problem. I've turned my entire life into fiction. It's not even real life that I'm living anymore.

Joey

It is real, in the best way possible. Dawson, do you know how lucky you are? You're a writer. You get to live life twice. Who else can do that?

Joey

Are you writing?

Dawson

No. The curse of an unwritten ending.

Joey

Oh. Make it a happy one, please. I can't take any more sad ones. Stay away from the life and death of it all.

Dawson

It's interesting how people use that expression-- life and death. As if to imply that life is the opposite of death, but birth is the opposite of death. Life... has no opposite.

Joey

I never thought of it that way.

Dawson

Well, leave it to me to over think it.

Joey

You are the writer.

Dawson

Yeah. This writer has decided it doesn't matter how it ends... because fiction is fiction, and for the first time, in a long time... My life is real. It doesn't matter who ends up with who. Because in some unearthly way... it's always gonna be you and me.

Joey

Soul mates.

Dawson

What we have goes beyond friendship, beyond lovers. It's forever.

Joey

Yes, it is. I love you, Dawson.

Dawson

I love you, too, Joey.