I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
ADAM SHANKMANI did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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Rock of the ages been a really interesting job.
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I’m addicted to directing!
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I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
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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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I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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When I put something into motion
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the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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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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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
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Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.
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I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies
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Most of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.
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I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
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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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The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there
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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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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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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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It’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.
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Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.
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And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.
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