And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.
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).
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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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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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I’m addicted to directing!
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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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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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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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Mary 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.
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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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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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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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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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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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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 grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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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 made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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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 creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
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I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
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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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Rock of the ages been a really interesting job.
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I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
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