People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
ADAM SHANKMANPeople love seeing people trying to change stuff.
ADAM SHANKMANReality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.
ADAM SHANKMANThe discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
ADAM SHANKMANthe creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
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 SHANKMANRock of the ages been a really interesting job.
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 was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
ADAM SHANKMANMia 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).
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 SHANKMANFilthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.
ADAM SHANKMANI think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.
ADAM SHANKMANI turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
ADAM SHANKMAN