I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
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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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 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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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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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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the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
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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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And I’m just kind of blowing through this. And everybody’s, like, happy, and giving thumbs up.
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I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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When I put something into motion
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I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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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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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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I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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