Author Dave Eggers, who rose to prominence with his beloved cult tome A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius.

According to Eggers, working alongside Jonze on the script for Where The Wild Things Are was a real experience.

"From the beginning, I knew Spike was doing a naturalistic, live-action version of the book. He had a sense of all that at the very beginning, and it immediately seemed like the right choice, but difficult. He knew he wanted real trees, real dirt, and that Max would sail in a real boat on a real ocean.

"So from the start there was a clear sense that the look would be the sort of human, naturalistic cinematography that he’s used in all his movies.

"But I’ve seen enough over the years to know that Spike absolutely achieved what he set out to do, which was to make an honest and beautiful film about childhood. I always knew he would, because he’s uniquely suited to make a movie about a boy, given he’s still got a lot of boy in him.

"He skateboards, and I’ve seen him wrestle dogs. The last time I was at his house, he shot me with a BB gun."