Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed because we all are. When people break up in a script, you think, Oh, right, there must be tears shed here. But maybe the fact of the matter is that they’re both laughing.

— Michael Fassbender

Michael Fassbender Quotes

As an audience member, those studio films are fun. I like an adventure tale, and I also like to go see something that has more of a social pulse. I like to keep learning and trying new things. And if the scripts are good, it doesn’t really matter.

— Michael Fassbender

Fun

Why does a three-year-old, and it’s usually boys, want to drive the tractor or have machinery and be in control of it? I don’t know. Why wouldn’t you ask to boil a kettle or something? Maybe you would, I dunno.

— Michael Fassbender

We moved to Ireland when I was two and we settled in Killarney, Co Kerry. Where we were living in Germany is very industrial and very grey and my parents wanted to have countryside around for my sister and I to grow up in.

— Michael Fassbender

Even if I’m playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.

— Michael Fassbender

The arts are very alive in Ireland, so that had its influence on me. But I consider myself European, really.

— Michael Fassbender

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

— Michael Fassbender

I always approach film as a fan.

— Michael Fassbender

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That’s not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

— Michael Fassbender

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

— Michael Fassbender

There’s no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It’s not really that interesting. Even if you’re a superhero.

— Michael Fassbender

I don’t think peroxide-blond hair is a beneficial look for me.

— Michael Fassbender

I came to Los Angeles and did auditions for television. I made a terrible mess of most of them and I was quite intimidated. I felt very embarrassed and went back to London. I got British television jobs intermittently between the ages of 23 and 27, but it was very patchy.

— Michael Fassbender

I’ve always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.

— Michael Fassbender

It’s more interesting isn’t it, if I’ve got a hedonistic dark side?

— Michael Fassbender

I’m fairly competitive.

— Michael Fassbender

If you’re dealing with a character that actually exists, there’s an awful lot of information there. So, you can put together, from the information, motivations, insecurities, reactions. Where does that seed get born, if you like? What I do is put that together.

— Michael Fassbender

Nowadays, especially in big commercial films it’s much easier for the audience, and they tend to get spoonfed. It’s much more interesting to me, people leave the theater and they start asking themselves questions and find their own moral compass about what these characters have been doing.

— Michael Fassbender

I think that idea of alienation, for whatever reason, is still very prevalent within our society and a lot of people deal with it – most people deal with it at some point in their life unless they’re sort of the golden child. I think that’s something that we all need to address.

— Michael Fassbender

When I go the cinema, unfortunately nowadays, especially with the big commercial films, the audience is spoon-fed through the entire experience and they don’t have to do any work.

— Michael Fassbender

Being movie director you’ve got the art department, you’ve got the actors, you’ve got the camera department, you’ve got make-up and hair, and props. You’ve got your finger in all these pies, and you’re making sure that everything cooks at the right temperature.

— Michael Fassbender

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