Sendak, Maurice Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

  2010, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life

  2010, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Where the Wild Things Are

  2009, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak

  2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Where the Wild Things Are

  2009, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Last Dance

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Last Dance

  2002, role: costume designer
• Play in Full Screen The Little Bear Movie

  2001, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Little Bear Movie

  2001, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Seven Little Monsters

  2000, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Seven Little Monsters

  2000, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Little Bear

  1995, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Little Bear

  1995, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen In the Night Kitchen

  1987, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Nutcracker

  1986, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The World of Maurice Sendak

  1986, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Nutcracker

  1986, role: costume designer
• Play in Full Screen Higglety Pigglety Pop!

  1985, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Return to Oz

  1985, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Where the Wild Things Are

  1984, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Simple Gifts

  1977, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Really Rosie

  1975, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Really Rosie

  1975, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Really Rosie

  1975, role: actor , character name: Jenny's Bark
• Play in Full Screen Where the Wild Things Are

  1973, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Zlateh the Goat

  1973, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Galaxie

  1966, role: actor , character name: Himself

Famous quotes by Maurice Sendak:

"I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpening exercises."

"He was the strangest little bird I'd ever seen. He had fluttered into the world of the studios and, could he not be swatted dead, I knew he would manage. I had total faith in him."

"What most people wanted was a reproduction of the book, because the book made money,"

"clinch with and collaborate with."

"I don't know what to make of it, exactly, but I am so for it, ... I am in love with it. If Spike and Dave do not do this movie, now, I would just as soon not see any version of it ever get made."

"Where the Wild Things Are,"

"There must be more to life than having everything"

"You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."

"My work is not great, but it's respectable. I have no false illusions."

"I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out."

"I became a set designer for opera."

"The distinctions of fine art bore me to death."

"I feel extremely vulnerable."

"My therapies went on forever."

"My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony."

"We're supposed to do all these things which trouble us deeply because it's so against what we naturally would want to do."

"Kids don't know about best sellers. They go for what they enjoy. They aren't star chasers and they don't suck up. It's why I like them."

"I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man. I can't believe it. I was young just minutes ago."

"Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar."

"I can't believe I've turned into a typical old man."

Maurice Sendak

Born: 1928-06-10

Died: 2012-05-08