Mitzi Fabelman: I will never leave Arizona, and Arizona will never leave me.
Burt Fabelman: It's more important than your hobby.
Sammy Fabelman: Can you stop calling it a hobby?
Burt Fabelman: You can't just love something, you also have to take care of it.
Mitzi Fabelman: Movies are dreams that you never forget.
John Ford: When the horizon's at the bottom, it's interesting. When the horizon's at the top, it's interesting. When the horizon's in the middle, it's boring as shit. Now, good luck to you. And get the fuck out of my office!
Younger Sammy Fabelman: Can I sleep with the oscilloscope?
John Ford: They tell me you want to become a picture maker. What do you know about art, kid?
Mitzi Fabelman: I've started therapy!
Mitzi Fabelman: Everything happens for a reason.
Sammy Fabelman: Unless I make a movie about it.
Hadassah Fabelman: My rabbi in New Jersey says a monkey in the house isn't kosher.
Mitzi Fabelman: That's why we're not going to eat him.
Burt Fabelman: Make something real, not imaginary.
Sammy Fabelman: I want to make movies though!
Bennie Loewy: If you stop making movies, it'll break your mother's heart.
Uncle Boris: Family, art: It will tear you in two.
Logan Hall: Life's nothing like the movies, Fabelman.
Sammy Fabelman: Maybe not. But hey, in the end, you got the girl.
Sammy Fabelman: Putting your head in a lion's mouth is art?
Uncle Boris: No, sticking your head in the mouth of lions was balls! Making sure that lion didn't eat my head? That is art!
Uncle Boris: You never seen a guy grieving before?
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.
Mitzi Fabelman: Guilt is a wasted emotion.
