I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
ADAM SHANKMANWhen 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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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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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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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 turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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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’m living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.
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I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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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 made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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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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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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