Michael Fassbender Quotes

The best plan is to have no plan.

I don't plan, because everything goes against my plans anyways. There's absolutely no point in planning anything. I'm just enjoying the moment. I'm meeting with a whole lot of people - casting directors, directors, agents. I have things going on everywhere, but I have no solid plans.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

I try not to plan that too much.

I'm not good at making plans, because I never have been. I never do things with an idea of where they may wind up.

I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover.

I think I've lived long enough to understand that plans really are very overrated.

You've gotta leave enough space for your actors to bring stuff to the table and whatever the weather's doing that day or what the light's like. Things can shift, and you have to be malleable. Every day is a different feeling and a change.

It might look like some incredibly complicated map to get from English period films to American action anti-heroes, but it really is just about not having a plan.

I've never really had a plan. You never know what's going to happen.

One never can plan. I just did my work and enjoyed shooting for all my films.

I've stopped making plans a long time back because they never work in my case. Now, I just take each day as it comes.

I don't know where I'm gonna be two weeks at a time, much less the thing I'm making. I'm just flattered to get the opportunity to do it and to get asked to do it.

Improvisation means coming to the situation without rigid expectations or preconceptions. The key to improvisation is motion — you keep going forward, fearful or not, living from moment to moment. That’s how life is.

The reason I don't have a plan is because if I have a plan I'm limited to today's options.

I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.

With theatre, you have to be ready for anything.

I'm not somebody who plans. There were times I planned a lot in my life, and it never turns out how you plan it. So I think it's important not to. I'm a very spontaneous person.

I'm in no hurry to get anywhere. I don't have any plans. I don't have a map. If you did in this business, you'd destroy yourself.

In this business it's difficult to make plans. I think the plans follow you and find you.

I don't plan an awful lot in life just as I don't plan an awful lot in my fiction.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

Sometimes you don't want to get married too much to a lot of rehearsing, I feel, when it comes to film, because there's so many technicalities. So if I'm in my head, I've gotten settled on something, I'm gonna have to change it if I get there and something was set that's completely different.