You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity.
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.