“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.”
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Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
