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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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
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I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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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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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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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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I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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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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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 made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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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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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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I’m living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.
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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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