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.
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 SHANKMANFor me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
ADAM SHANKMANThe things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there
ADAM SHANKMANReality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.
ADAM SHANKMANI feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies
ADAM SHANKMANI turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
ADAM SHANKMANThere is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
ADAM SHANKMANI will never lose anything that an audience will miss
ADAM SHANKMANHe’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
ADAM SHANKMANAnd I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
ADAM SHANKMANI’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly
ADAM SHANKMANI’m addicted to directing!
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
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.
ADAM SHANKMANThe discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
ADAM SHANKMAN