Tale as Old as Time: The Making of 'Beauty and the Beast'

Alan Menken:
I remember Angela didn't want to record Beauty and The Beast.

Angela Lansbury:
It was a ballad. A very slow ballad and I was afraid of it I said, "I don't think your right in asking me to sing this song I think someone else should sing it." and they said, "no we want you to sing it."

Alan Menken:
What a day in the studio that was. Just not to be believed. And Angela... one take, Beauty and the Beast, one take. Incredible.

Will Finn:
Beauty and The Beast is a wonderful tale of morality and love and it stars [Produces a Cogsworth figurine from his jacket] a mantle clock named Cogsworth and a bunch of other characters whose names I just can't remember at this point in time.

Alan Menken:
Beauty and The Beast is the telling of that story and also of a very personal story of Howard Ashman's courage and uh his passing.

Roy Edward Disney:
[about Beauty and The Beast being nominated for Best Picture] To have your peers come and say, "That's a movie" really moved us all in a special way

Kirk Wise:
We were kinda made the acting directors of this film which meant that uh

Gary Trousdale:
We had to act like directors

Roger Alllers:
"To our friend Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul." I-I don't even know how to expand on it because it's so elegant. So eloquently put.