I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

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

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.

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?

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

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.