Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender
Michael Fassbender is a Irish actor of stage and screen whose career includes roles in both independent and blockbuster films...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth2 April 1977
CityHeidelberg, Germany
CountryGermany
Michael Fassbender quotes about
character interesting people
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.
motivation character insecurity
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.
reading character preparation
Some actors might just do one thing, and another actor does another thing. I do an awful lot of preparation with the script, really. What I do is repeat the script, over and over and over again. Through that, it's almost like it seeps into my enamel. I'm reading all the characters, as well as my own. That is where the bulk of my preparation goes into.
character decision might
Sometimes if I stick in a character too much I feel like I might start to get blinkered, because I'm making my decisions too definite.
teenager character different
The actors I looked up to when I was a teenager, they all just disappeared into different characters.
character judging trying
Trying to identify and understand, as opposed to judging, is very important for me, in approaching characters.
breakup character thinking
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.
asking coming complexity damaged rather theater themselves
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of it. I want the audience leaving the theater wondering, asking the questions themselves rather than being spoon-fed like a lot of these super-villain characters.
doe film plans
I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.
art hair pie
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.
spoons cinema film
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.
children thinking ideas
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.
study academic
I've always been more inclined to go out to work than carry on with academic studies.
opportunity people strange
People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.