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).
ADAM SHANKMANDancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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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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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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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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I was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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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’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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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 thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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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 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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