I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
ADAM SHANKMANWhen the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
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I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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When I put something into motion
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And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.
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When the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies
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I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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Mary J. Blige is the Queen Latifah character. Her voice in this movie [Rock of ages] is, she just gives it this incredible warmth, and she’s just this person who blows out of the screen. She’s just incredible.
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I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
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