I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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I’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.
ADAM SHANKMANI made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.
ADAM SHANKMANFor me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
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 SHANKMANI’m living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.
ADAM SHANKMANWhen the opportunity to choreograph came up, it was nothing more in my head but an opportunity. Then it suddenly became a career very quickly.
ADAM SHANKMANI turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
ADAM SHANKMANI will never lose anything that an audience will miss
ADAM SHANKMANI did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did “Get the Funk Out”.
ADAM SHANKMANI grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
ADAM SHANKMANThere was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.
ADAM SHANKMANIt’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 SHANKMANMary 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.
ADAM SHANKMANYou are the architect of your own loneliness.
ADAM SHANKMANThe discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
ADAM SHANKMAN