Things kids like: syncopation, adventure, investigating, jam
Things kids don’t like: going to bed
Maurice Sendak makes these observations in a 1985 interview filmed by Weston Woods. The interview takes place in Sendak’s country home, which is sunny and features a psychedelic couch and Mickey Mouse clock.
Sendak is a trim man with grey hair, a close-cropped beard, and slightly unhinged eyes. Throughout the interview he wears the kind of glasses you might associate with a New Yorker editor circa 1958. He comes across as willfull, imaginative and uncompromising, and has these traits in common with children.
“[Where the Wild Things Are] didn’t frighten children,” he explains to the camera, with great seriousness. “And if it did frighten some children, well okay, perhaps it had to.”
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