I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
ADAM SHANKMANDancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
More Adam Shankman Quotes
-
-
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.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I 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 SHANKMAN -
The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I’m addicted to directing!
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.
ADAM SHANKMAN -
I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
ADAM SHANKMAN