I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
ADAM SHANKMANI will never lose anything that an audience will miss
ADAM SHANKMANI did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
ADAM SHANKMANI thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
ADAM SHANKMANHe’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
ADAM SHANKMANAnd I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.
ADAM SHANKMANDancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
ADAM SHANKMANMia Michaels is to my mind one of the most interesting choreographers alive right now and my colleague and my friend from So You Think (You Can Dance).
ADAM SHANKMANMost of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.
ADAM SHANKMANMary 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.
ADAM SHANKMANI’m addicted to directing!
ADAM SHANKMANthe creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
ADAM SHANKMANI’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly
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.
ADAM SHANKMANThe discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
ADAM SHANKMANI actually had less time and the exact same budget on Hairspray, which was few years ago and this is a much bigger movie [then Rock of Ages]. That’s the way studios do it now.
ADAM SHANKMANI think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.
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