Maurice Sendak

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.

My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

I had a brother who was my savior, made my childhood bearable.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.