I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
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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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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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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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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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