I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
ADAM SHANKMANI thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
More Adam Shankman Quotes
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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 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 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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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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When 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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the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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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 will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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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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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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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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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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