There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth.
ADAM SHANKMANThe 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 was a choreographer in the ’80s and I was doing these videos.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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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 thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.
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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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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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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’m just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I’ll die.
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I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.
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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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I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz.
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There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise.
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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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