I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
ADAM SHANKMANI 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.
More Adam Shankman Quotes
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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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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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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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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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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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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Filthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.
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People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
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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).
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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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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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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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Rock of the ages been a really interesting job.
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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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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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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I’ve always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly
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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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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’m addicted to directing!
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I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
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I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
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When I put something into motion
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I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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