Most of the actors have said “this is the best role they’ve ever had.” So you know, that’s important to me.
ADAM SHANKMANMost 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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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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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 grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
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I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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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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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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He’s not going to let anybody do his singing for him.
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I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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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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I think of myself of as a little bit of hack, and think like that, and I think of her [Mia Michaels] as an artist.
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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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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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I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
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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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When I put something into motion
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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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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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Rock of the ages been a really interesting job.
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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 did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
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