Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman
Adam Michael Shankman is an American film director, producer, dancer, author, actor, and choreographer. He was a judge on the television program So You Think You Can Dance on seasons 3-10. He began his professional career in musical theater, and was a dancer in music videos for Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson. Shankman has choreographed dozens of films and has also directed several feature-length box office hits, including A Walk to Remember, Bringing Down the House, The Pacifier and the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth27 November 1964
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
The discovery of dance has changed my life in unimaginable ways.
You are the architect of your own loneliness.
Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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.
I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.
Reality also is that there are a lot of gaps, there are a lot of business in between the iconic things.
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.