Mia 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 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 SHANKMANI turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
ADAM SHANKMANI thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
ADAM SHANKMANI did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
ADAM SHANKMANI was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
ADAM SHANKMANIt’s been exhausting. It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever done because it’s just so big, and I haven’t had a lot of time.
ADAM SHANKMANI’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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 SHANKMANBelieve me, there was never any discussion of lip syncing or another voice or anything like that, because if the guy’s going to hang out on the top of the Burj
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 SHANKMANFor me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
ADAM SHANKMANI feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
ADAM SHANKMANYou are the architect of your own loneliness.
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
ADAM SHANKMANThe discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
ADAM SHANKMAN