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

Though I’ve grown old, the bell still rings for me as it does for all who truly believe.

There was a great deal of peer recognition to be gained in elementary school by being able to draw well. One girl could draw horses so well, she was looked upon as a kind of sorceress.

An award does not change the quality of a book.

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

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.