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  • [Music: Oskar Schuster "Sneeuwland"]

  • Maurice Sendak: I love watching animal movies on television. And they always say don't run

  • away and don't turn your back. And don't lie down flat. And I loveit's from my childhoodhow

  • do you prevent dying? How do you prevent being eaten or mauled by a monster? I still worry

  • about it. (Laughter)

  • [Music: Johnny_Ripper "Opening Credits"]

  • Maurice Sendak: I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in

  • lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy.

  • Childhood is a very tough time. It was for me, and it was for my brother and my sister.

  • They were both considerably older than I was and they protected me from my parents. They

  • were the good parents. And my real parents were not so good, okay? They didn't mean any

  • harm. They were confused; they didn't speak English. Living in a foreign country, and

  • take it out on your kids. That's all.

  • [Music: "Opening Credits" continues]

  • Maurice Sendak: But there are a lot of crazy people who have children, and I've always

  • been interested in how children maneuver and decide how to live. It's hard. I've always

  • had a deep respect for children and how they solve complex problems by themselves.

  • Ramin Seetodeh: And how do they?

  • Maurice Sendak: I think through shrewdness, fantasy and just plain strength; they want

  • to survive. They want to survive. The kids in Hansel and Gretel: Gretel, she saves her

  • brother's life. And a little girl saving a little boy's lifewhen did children have

  • to confront such terrible ordeals? Well they do. They do.

  • [Music: "Opening Credits" continues]

  • Andrew Romano: Just a broad question: what should children's stories contain?

  • Maurice Sendak: Well, how would I know? All I do know is that my parents were immigrants

  • and they didn't know that they should clean the stories up for us. So we heard horrible,

  • horrible stories. And we loved them. We absolutely loved them. But the three of usmy sister,

  • my brother and myselfgrew up being very depressed people.

  • [Music: Ergo Phizmiz & Margita Zalite "Rolands Vegners"]

  • Maurice Sendak: So the great thing was my brother, who wrote stories and I'd illustrate

  • his stories. There was one story we called "We Are Inseparable." And they're going to

  • get married. The brother and sister are going to get married and nobody knows that there's

  • anything wrong with that. Nobody. Nobody. Hey, you love somebody. So it's your sister.

  • Big deal. Okay?

  • [Music: "Rolands Vegners" continues]

  • Maurice Sendak: Now, obviously Freud stuck into my brother's head at the last minute

  • to prevent this wedding from taking place. The boy's in an accidentand I can't remember

  • whatand he's bandaged and looks like a mummy. And she comes tearing to the hospital.

  • "Let me in! Let me in!" And the parents are holding her back, holding her back and then

  • she breaks down the door and she jumps on top of him and they both scream in unison,

  • "We are inseparable!" And they leap out the window of the Brooklyn Jewish Hospitallike

  • the 40th floorand that's how it ends. It was a really happy ending. (Laughter)

  • [Music: "Sneeuwland"continues]

  • Maurice Sendak: Let's tell the truth. Let's talk about the kid who doesn't make it sensationally

  • well. Who struggles and fights, but really doesn't know what he's fighting against or

  • for. And I don't think that changes. We're all adults in this room sitting talking about

  • that. Has that ended? No. It doesn't end. I still think the same way I thought as a

  • child. I still worry. I'm still frightened. Everything is the same. Nothing changes.

  • [Music: "Sneeuwland" continues]

  • END

[Music: Oskar Schuster "Sneeuwland"]

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