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.
“My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.”
“To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.”