Newsweek’s Ramin Satoodeh talks to Maurice Sendack, Dave Eggers and director Spike Jonze about Where the Wild Things Are. The film has great word of mouth already from the corners of the world I visit. But it is also kind of shrouded in mystery.
Maurice, what did you think when you first saw the movie?
Sendak: I thought it was never going to end. [Laughter] I say that to be funny. The truth of the matter is, I saw immediately a combination of things that I wanted and I loved. The courage of the child, the danger of the situation‚Äîit could turn on a dime. They could have eaten him. All of that was apparent right from the start. The artistry was something they would have to take care of. I was happy right from the beginning. I didn’t have to suffer like they did‚Äîschlepping from this place to that place, dealing with the studio.
And later:
Jonze: I mean, I think it’s a film‚ÄîI want children to see it, and it’s not like I made it not for children, and it’ll be on the video shelf under CHILDREN’S, but I didn’t come at it that way. I came at it from the inside out as opposed to the outside in. In the end, though, the studio let us make the movie we wanted to make.
It should answer some questions and illuminate others.
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