I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

I don't think ordinary things are very interesting, so I try to imagine a world that is less ordinary.

There must be something to think about at the end.

its not bad to be different. Sometimes it's the mark of being very very talented.