Most of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.
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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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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Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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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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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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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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People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
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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 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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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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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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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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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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