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Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
October 14, 2009
· HBO Documentaries
· 39 minutes
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Directed by: Lance Bangs, Spike Jonze
· Cinematography: Lance Bangs, Jeff Buchanan, Spike Jonze
· Editing: Jeff Buchanan
"Tell Them Anything You Want" is a 2009 documentary film directed by Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze about children's author Maurice Sendak. 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". Meryl Streep is featured in the documentary in a segment from the 80th birthday party for Sendak, where she read one of his stories, "The Sign on Rosie's Door".
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