I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
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’m addicted to directing!
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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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Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.
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Rock of the ages been a really interesting job.
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I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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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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People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
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I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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I’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly
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I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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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 made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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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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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 turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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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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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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the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed.
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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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