Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
Directed by	Lance Bangs Spike Jonze
Starring	Maurice Sendak Spike Jonze Catherine Keener
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Hunter Hill Vincent Landay Perry Moore Allison Sarofim
Cinematography	Lance Bangs Jeff Buchanan Spike Jonze
Editor	Jeff Buchanan
Running time	39 minutes
Original release
Network	HBO
Release	October 2, 2009 (2009-10-02)

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.

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.^[1]

The film was screened at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in 2022.^[2]

• Where the Wild Things Are (film), a 2009 adaptation of Sendak's book directed by Jonze, which is also discussed in the film^[3]

• Tell Them Anything You Want at IMDb

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