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.
ADAM SHANKMANFilthy McNasty’s and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.
ADAM SHANKMANI feel like a lot of my past career was going to film school, making a lot of different kinds of movies
ADAM SHANKMANI thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
ADAM SHANKMANFor me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
ADAM SHANKMANDancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
ADAM SHANKMANI’m addicted to directing!
ADAM SHANKMANI was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
ADAM SHANKMANThere was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.
ADAM SHANKMANI will never lose anything that an audience will miss
ADAM SHANKMANMia 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 SHANKMANI grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
ADAM SHANKMANI’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
ADAM SHANKMANI turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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.
ADAM SHANKMAN