SPIKE JONZE: OK?
MAURICE SENDAK: Yup.
Do I--
SPIKE JONZE: Yeah, just say, I'm Maurice Sendak.
We're out at my barn.
MAURICE SENDAK: Oh, OK.
I'm Maurice Sendak.
We are now sitting in my barn.
It's where I come and work when I want
it to be very quiet.
There's no radio here, there's no TV, there's nothing here.
Just me and Herman, the German Shepherd, who says nothing.
He doesn't critique my work, doesn't cluck his tongue.
When he has to take a leak, he just tells you, straight out.
Well, I've had infinite amount of dogs, but
Herman is the best.
And also he's the best trained.
Because of my legs and back, he walks slowly,
he looks after me.
Aside from her, he's the only thing that makes me happy.
SPIKE JONZE: Aside from Lynn?
Does Lynn live with you?
MAURICE SENDAK: Yes.
She's the woman in my life.
She is the only woman in my life.
LYNN CAPONERA: That's not true.
You have a lot of women in your life.
MAURICE SENDAK: Yes.
LYNN CAPONERA: Women love Maurice.
Maurice gets proposed to at least four or
five times a year.
MAURICE SENDAK: It's terrifying.
SPIKE JONZE: Keener proposed to you.
MAURICE SENDAK: Who?
SPIKE JONZE: Catherine Keener wanted to marry you.
MAURICE SENDAK: I want to marry her, too, but it's not
likely we'll get it together.
CATHERINE KEENER: Hi, Maurice.
I'm practicing.
Hi, Maurice.
Did you have brothers or sisters?
MAURICE SENDAK: I had.
CATHERINE KEENER: They're gone?
MAURICE SENDAK: They're gone.
They were wonderful, truly wonderful people.
CATHERINE KEENER: Girls or boys?
MAURICE SENDAK: One brother, one sister.
I'm the baby.
CATHERINE KEENER: You are the baby.
I could tell.
You seem like the baby in the line-up.
SPIKE JONZE: How do you tell?
MAURICE SENDAK: How do you tell?
CATHERINE KEENER: I don't know.
I just feel it.
SPIKE JONZE: I was telling Keener how a lot of your
family and experiences with your family have wound up in a
lot of your work.
Is that true?
MAURICE SENDAK: No.
SPIKE JONZE: No?
You told me that--
MAURICE SENDAK: I make up a lot of shit.
But I can't tell the real story.