I Love Him ❤

This was NOT on youtube during my big Sendak obsession in college 2k14. I'm losin it. This is everything. He's so young!

Great to hear him as a young man

I've watched quite a few interviews with him, but this one is by far the best, the most informative. It's wonderful to hear what inspired him and to hear how the wild things evolved form wild horses. I recommend you read DEAR GENIUS - letters that his editor, great Ursula Nordstrom wrote to young Maurice and many other authors and illustrators she found and nurtured. Fabulous book! He struggled with drawing horses, so he ended up drawing the wild things. And the wild things, he said, were inspired by his relatives which he detested as a child.

brilliant ...

Simply wonderful

Absolutely love this, and him and his work

Wow - this is a goldmine. Thank you for sharing/uploading. Wonderful.

It shouldn't come as a surprise that someone capable of what Sendak did also comes over as a very loveable person - but how I wish I could have had lunch with him, talking about pictures and the colour of music!

Stellar.

You can really see how clever they had to be with visual mediums to give readers the impression of, say, a "dance or musical episode," before the advent of digital media. Or giving the reader a sense of motion in a drawing medium.

Maurice Sendak is one of the true inspirations for writers and illustrators. He has been a inspiration for me and my work too.

This is wonderful..I true delight,a treasure of information. Thank you.

Excellent video.

It's wonderful to hear him speak about children's book illustrations along side dance and classical composers. Great interview, a time-machine.

One of my heroes. Its so cool to learn the artists that influenced him so I can hunt down some of these books myself.

Just a legend

Omg this is priceless!!! Thank you for making this available :D

Wonderful! Thank you for posting. Like so many other illustrators I was inspired by Sendak. I even did my own version of Where the Wild Things Are, called Night Wall, published years ago, here in Canada. As a kid I hoped there would be more adventures of Max and the Wild Things, but that was not to be. I suppose a reason my book was ignored in Canada was that it was too much like a Sendak book. Certainly I stole a few details, but following Sendak's advice, I mixed styles, Sendak's with Van Allsburg, and Hayao Miyazaki. It was a bit of an homage to a number of artists and to a time long passed for me.

What a find. Thank you so much for sharing this.

RIP with much - You continue to inspire us.

Great film.

I love films like this. Blasts from the past. I would love to see Sendak actually drawing or painting something. I'm pretty sure I saw a video of him working once, but I haven't been able to find it. Thanks for this, Lost Marbles.

Wow! This was such an informative interview. Very interesting!

Actually a very nice informative made in 1965 and in Color interview done at the right time! Produced by Morton Schindel & crew!

S'wonnerful!

Thank you so much for uploading this gem!

Wow

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The things I would do for that dummy book of WTWTA!