If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.

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

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

If you don't know where you're going, stop racing to get there. -- from Just Desert by M. T. Anderson

I pore over every word on the cereal box at breakfast, often more than once. You can ask me anything about shredded wheat.