I feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies
ADAM SHANKMANThere 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 made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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When I put something into motion
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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
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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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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 was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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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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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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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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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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Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.
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