There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
ADAM SHANKMANI thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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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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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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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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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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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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I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
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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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People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
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I’m addicted to directing!
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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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 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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When I put something into motion
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I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
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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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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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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 turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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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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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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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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Rock of the ages been a really interesting job.
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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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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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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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