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Author Maurice Sendak during a press junket for Spike Jonze's adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are, commenting on the particularly American tendency to get the vapors when filmmakers don't "think of the children" and allow them to view scary monsters in a movie about scary monsters:

What do you say to parents who think the Wild Things film may be too scary?
Sendak: I would tell them to go to hell. That's a question I will not tolerate.

Because kids can handle it?
Sendak: If they can't handle it, go home. Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it's not a question that can be answered.

Why is that important in art?
Sendak: Because it's truth. You don't want to do something that's all terrifying. I saw the most horrendous movies that were unfit for child's eyes. So what? I managed to survive.

Choices, choices, choices. But really, asking adults to know their kids, asking adults to explain things to their kids, or just plain trusting kids to be able to process what's going on? What country does he think this movie is opening in?