Adam Shankman Quotes

• The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.

  Adam Shankman

  Discovery, Way, Changed

  "Producer Adam Shankman Talks STEP UP REVOLUTION Blu-ray/DVD, Future STEP UP Movies, Directing GLEE’s Upcoming Christmas Episode, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 27, 2012.

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• When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

  Adam Shankman

  Creativity, Swimming, Sharks

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Adam Shankman

  Rocks, Years, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• You are the architect of your own loneliness.

  Adam Shankman

  Loneliness, Architect, Originals

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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. I made a bunch of comedies, I made one drama and I made a couple musicals.

  Adam Shankman

  Couple, Drama, School

  "Producer Adam Shankman Talks STEP UP REVOLUTION Blu-ray/DVD, Future STEP UP Movies, Directing GLEE’s Upcoming Christmas Episode, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 27, 2012.

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• I'm addicted to directing!

  Adam Shankman

  Source: collider.com

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• People love seeing people trying to change stuff.

  Adam Shankman

  People, Trying, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• Rock of the ages been a really interesting job. 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. And I'm just kind of blowing through this. And everybody's, like, happy, and giving thumbs up. Most of the actors have said "this is the best role they've ever had." So you know, that's important to me.

  Adam Shankman

  Jobs, Thumbs Up, Rocks

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always sort of marveled at our ability to chat and match, because of, I come, honestly 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.

  Adam Shankman

  Artist, Thinking, Mia

  Source: collider.com

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• There is no one who likes a challenge more than Tom Cruise. 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, he's not going to let anybody do his singing for him.

  Adam Shankman

  Believe, Voice, Guy

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I grew up in Brentwood, but I live now in Los Feliz. I grew up on the beach, now I live under the Hollywood sign.

  Adam Shankman

  Beach, Hollywood, Grew Up

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• Mia 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 Shankman

  Thinking, Interesting, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Adam Shankman

  Queens, Character, Blow

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.

  Adam Shankman

  Careers, Safety, Levels

  Source: collider.com

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• I grew up looking at the Sunset Strip, literally. The things that I remember are the Rainbow Room, the Roxy, the Bizarries, Tower, I grew up my whole life going there, Filthy McNasty's and I said, I need these things and now fill it in with other iconic buildings.

  Adam Shankman

  Sunset, Rainbow, Towers

  Source: collider.com

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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.

  Adam Shankman

  Reality, Gaps, Iconic

  Source: collider.com

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• I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did "Get the Funk Out".

  Adam Shankman

  Video, Funk, Really Weird

  Source: collider.com

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• There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.

  Adam Shankman

  Cutting, Rocks, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

  Adam Shankman

  Missing, Cameras, Stuff

  Source: collider.com

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• Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.

  Adam Shankman

  First Love, Boys, Dancing

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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.

  Adam Shankman

  Opportunity, Careers

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• For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.

  Adam Shankman

  Games, Directors, Becoming

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