Quotes

Michael Fassbender: “Even if I’m playing a superhero, it has to be steeped in reality.”

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: “‘Hunger’ definitely changed my life, in terms of being recognized by filmmakers, since that was very much a filmmakers’ film.”

Michael Fassbender: “I always approach film as a fan.”

Michael Fassbender: ” don’t know what’s going to happen. I’m flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months’ time. I just want to keep working. I can’t stop!”

Michael Fassbender: “I guess in the independent market, I’d be getting offers, but in terms of big studio films, I still have to audition. I don’t think my name is that well-known, I don’t have much of a following to guarantee box office success yet.”

Michael Fassbender: “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.”

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: “What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.”

Michael Fassbender: “You know, it’s amazing. I don’t even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I’ve got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.”

Michael Fassbender: “You use words like ‘introvert’ and ‘extrovert,’ various traits of a personality. A lot of that stuff, we used in drama school, and that was kind of interesting, to realize my teachers sort of ripped off a lot of Jung. And how much of it is part of our society now, these phrases, introvert and extrovert, where it actually came from.”

Michael Fassbender: “We live in this society where nowadays if I want something, I take it, I eat it – it’s so easy and readily available. When you take all that away, you actually become more appreciative of the things around you. I don’t want to do it again, but there is a level where it humbles you in a good way.”

Michael Fassbender: “I’m a natural ginger, so I think gingers have more fun!”

Michael Fassbender: “For me, Daniel Day-Lewis is in a league of his own. I think that he’s amazing. And he’s always been a benchmark of excellence.”

Michael Fassbender: “You know Quentin Tarantino eats, breathes, lives film. You could bring up the most obscure movie, like some fuckin’ Swedish film from 1963 or whatever and he’ll know it. It’s quite staggering, actually, his encyclopedia of knowledge.”