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.
ADAM SHANKMANThere is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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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 was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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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 grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
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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 turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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I will never lose anything that an audience will miss
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I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
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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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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 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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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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People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
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When I put something into motion
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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’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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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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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally.
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I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
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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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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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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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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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