Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak is a 2009 television documentary film directed by Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze about children's author Maurice Sendak.

Content Starting in 2003 Spike Jonze and his frequent collaborator Lance Bangs began to film a series of interviews with author Maurice Sendak. Sendak spoke about his youth, family, thoughts on death, and his career and some of the controversies that came from his books Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen.

Screenings The film was screened at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in 2022.

See also

Where the Wild Things Are (film), a 2009 adaptation of Sendak's book directed by Jonze, which is also discussed in the film

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