Quotes by Adam Shankman - Page 1

I'm addicted to directing!
Adam Shankman / Film Director
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You are the architect of your own loneliness.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
Architect
Loneliness
Originals
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People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
People
Stuff
Trying
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For me, there was never an end game for becoming a director.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
Becoming
Directors
Games
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The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
Changed
Discovery
Unimaginable
Way
Life My Life Dance
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
Boys
Chorus
Dancing
First Love
Happiest
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I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
Careers
Levels
Safety
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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 / Film Director
Gaps
Iconic
Reality
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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 / Film Director
Beach
Grew Up
Hollywood
Los
Sign
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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 / Film Director
Cameras
Missing
Stuff
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I really loved making 'A Walk to Remember', so I'm not afraid of making smaller films. But for me, I just need to connect to the characters.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
Walk Me Remember
Connect
Smaller
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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 / Film Director
Opportunity
Careers
Choreograph
Suddenly
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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 / Film Director
Interesting
Mind
Thinking
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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 / Film Director
Funk
Really Weird
Video
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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 / Film Director
Age
Cutting
Rocks
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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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Age
Rocks
Years
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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 / Film Director
Bunch
Couple
Different Kinds
Drama
Film School
School
Comedies
Musicals
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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.
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Creativity
Sharks
Swimming
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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 / Film Director
Artist
Mia
Thinking
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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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Queens
Blow
Character
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A little secret - I'm the child of a shrink. I am; my mom's a shrink, and my father's a lawyer. So believe me, I analyze and negotiate. That is a huge amount of the director's work, especially when you're working with people who - such a variety.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
Amount
Secret
Variety
Analyze
Huge Amount
Negotiate
Shrink
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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 / Film Director
Rainbow
Sunset
Towers
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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.
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Believe
Guy
Voice
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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. But, it really is about that shared experience with people. I'm from theater, and that's really what theater feels like.
Adam Shankman / Film Director
Employed
Swimming
Jump
Motion
Shared
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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 / Film Director
Jobs
Rocks
Thumbs Up
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