QUOTES FROM ELLEN:
Audrey
first appears in the film via a slow tilt upwards from her high-heels
as she walks across Skid Row to work:
"I'm supposed to look vacous...vacous is very difficult to put across! I dont have any trouble with the sexy wiggle when I walk...my brother always used to say that it came naturally!"
"The film has all the heart that was at the center of the show."
"Little Shop Of Horrors isn't like anything else - it never was and it still isn't...just when you think you are going to laugh, you cry, and vice versa."
"The songs were never conceived as songs but the hearts of the characters".
"I've Always carried the spirit of Howard Ashman with me throughout this great period in my life. Only now I carry the spirit of Frank Oz as well"
©Ellen Greene (Jan. 1987)
QUOTES FROM RICK:
"On stage, an audience cuts to where it wants to look...on film,the director does it for you. The beats that grab a theatre audience aren't there anymore because the camera is right in your face".
"I did Ghostbusters because all those guys were my friends and I knew it would be fun...now I'm being more picky and if necessary I will go back and do my own stuff rather than choose a film role just for the sake of it."
"You have to commit too much to a film role and if it's not pleasant, it's horrible!...Little Shop is the best!"
"The sound of the songs has changed to make them more cinematic...'Suddenly Seymour' has changed into a two minute 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' in opening it up from a six-piece band number to one with full orchestration. And that's enough for me really. What I love about the songs is that they all sound so familiar and accessible."
©Rick Moranis (Jan. 1987)
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