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.
ADAM SHANKMANHe’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
More Adam Shankman Quotes
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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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.
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I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
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I’m living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.
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Believe 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
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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.
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I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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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).
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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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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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