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.
People love seeing people trying to change stuff.
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.
I'm living at a very intense discomfort level because my career has been predicated on safety.
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.
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.