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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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 SHANKMANYou are the architect of your own loneliness.
ADAM SHANKMANI’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
ADAM SHANKMANI thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
ADAM SHANKMANI will never lose anything that an audience will miss
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
ADAM SHANKMANWhen I put something into motion
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 grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
ADAM SHANKMANThere was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.
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 SHANKMANI was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
ADAM SHANKMANThe things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there
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 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 SHANKMANFor me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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