SPIKE JONZE’S WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE may be the biggest, most polarizing Number One box-office hit to come around in a long time but it got its start as a children’s book that was just a handful of lines and 328 words long. We spoke with JONZE recently and he talked about turning that source material into a full-length movie. Listen in below:

We’ve got a feeling that WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE will keep people talking for a long time to come. As Max says in the book, “Let the wild rumpus start!”