Dweezil Zappa Quotes

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

I had been practicing guitar about six months beforehand; I concentrated mostly on the songs I had to play. I got those down pretty well so they could use me actually playing.

Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.

It's not really that I didn't want to perform at all. What I didn't want to do was try to put together a band, rehearse, on my own. You know what I mean?

I demanded two weeks of rehearsal because to me as an actor, that's the most important time.

He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical exercises designed to keep a musician in shape in order to perform the function, which is to play music.

My band can tell you, I'd rather do anything than rehearse.

Or certainly I would need time - which I would love to have but there almost never is on a film - to just spend a week with a roomful of guys laying down these patterns.

I did this film for less money than it costs to stay in this hotel. We shot it in 20 days. We couldn't screw up takes for fun because we didn't have enough film.

I mean, a lot of time rehearsals are taken up with other things other than preparing a character.

We are going as fast as we can as soon as we can. We're in a race against time, until we run out of money.

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

The biggest challenge was that we had to shoot so quickly and with such a limited budget.

Anyone can rehearse and play constantly any song in the world.

I can't afford to be a member of a golf course.

It's very rare to have rehearsal time on a television show: You get scripts, you show up, and you do it.

In theater, you're allowed to take your time and sit in a role for a month before you have to share it with anybody. In film and TV, you have to just kind of show up and be ready to do that, which, to me, is very strange and crazy.

No movie has ever got enough time. It doesn't matter how much money you've got, and it doesn't matter how much money you've not got. You never finish on time. You're always up against it and you're always working up until the end.

I think being on a constraint with money makes you much more creative.

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

For me, rehearsal is very important, and I spend a lot of time doing it. Also, I work with my acting teacher for hours and hours before walking onto any set.

In general, I don't even have the luxury of rehearsal time on most films that I make. It is just a scene-by-scene full cast read through. It's very much just doing the rehearsal sometimes the day before, at the end of the day, but just on the spot as the scene unfolds.

It's hard to evolve when you only have fifteen days or three weeks to practice and correct and change tactics.