The Fabelmans (2022)
Paul Dano: Burt Fabelman
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Quotes
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Burt Fabelman : You can't just love something, you also have to take care of it.
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Burt Fabelman : We've gone too far in our story to actually say "the end."
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Burt Fabelman : [to Sammy] We're never not going to know each other, Sammy.
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Burt Fabelman : Happy things like light from a huge flashlight. But these photographs move past the light really fast. 24 photos in every second. Now, in your brain, each photograph stays for about a 15th of a second. That's called persistence of vision. The photographs move past faster than your brain can let go of them, and that's how the movie projector tricks us into believing that motionless pictures are moving. A motion picture.
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Sammy Fabelman : You didn't come here to build houses, you didn't come here to work. You ran away.
Burt Fabelman : *I think you have something to say to me, Sammy and if I'm right about that, then get it off your chest and say it to my face.*
Mitzi Fabelman : [stands on a chair] I started therapy!
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Burt Fabelman : It's more important than your hobby.
Sammy Fabelman : Can you stop calling it a hobby?
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Burt Fabelman : Make something real, not imaginary.
Sammy Fabelman : I want to make movies though!
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Burt Fabelman : [driving on Christmas] The lights change how everything looks. It's hard to find our house.
Younger Sammy Fabelman : Ours is the dark house with no lights.
[Mitzi laughs]
Younger Sammy Fabelman : That's what I want for Hanukkah.
Mitzi Fabelman : What?
Younger Sammy Fabelman : Christmas lights!
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[first lines]
Burt Fabelman : Mommy and daddy will be right next to you. The lights will go down. There may be some organ music as the curtain open. Don't be scared.
Younger Sammy Fabelman : It'll be dark in there, you said. I don't wanna go in.
Burt Fabelman : But it's fun. All week you've been so excited. Your first ever movie!
Younger Sammy Fabelman : And the people are gigantic.
Burt Fabelman : What people?
Younger Sammy Fabelman : You said the people in the movie are gigantic.
Burt Fabelman : Oh, because of the big screen they're on. But they're not real though, right?
Mitzi Fabelman : They're like dreams.
Younger Sammy Fabelman : Dreams are scary.
Mitzi Fabelman : Some dreams are, but this is gonna be a nice dream.
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Burt Fabelman : You're behaving like your mother died, like you're in mourning but nobody's died.
Mitzi Fabelman : Okay, so I'll call the monkey some other name.
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Hadassah Fabelman : He's only always here because he works for my son.
Burt Fabelman : He's only always here because he's my best friend.
Bennie Loewy : And deep down inside you, Mrs. Fabelman, admit it, I'm your friend too.
Hadassah Fabelman : Deep down inside of me is none of your business.
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Burt Fabelman : The new house will be ready faster than you can say Jack Robinson.
Reggie Fabelman : Jack Robinson.
Mitzi Fabelman : And we're still here.