"Polar Express is not an attempt to do animation. It is a technology-based film."

-- Leonard Maltin

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“When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer.”
“I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend youâ€™re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have. That way, youâ€™ll never dumb things down. You wonâ€™t have to explain things that donâ€™t need explaining. Youâ€™ll assume an intimacy and a natural shorthand, which is good because readers are smart and donâ€™t wish to be condescended to.”
“Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short.”
“I was a bike rider, a photographer and a history student, probably in that order. (On his early years)”
“As far as I'm concerned, any Aboriginal that gets out there and accepts money that has been put out as a package for this bicentenary is actually accepting blood money. We've still got people with leprosy and we still got tremendous problems. These problems have not been our problems, they're the problems of the European population of Australia.”
“I don't care what people say about me and what they think about me. I care about my team and I care about myself. Lots of people watch hockey, and I think everybody has different thinking.”
“The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to articulate discontent so it is sometimes held not to exist. This mistaken belief arises because we can only grasp silence in the moment in which it is breaking.”
“It was old President Diaz who said that nothing ever happens in Mexico until it happens. Things rock along from day to day, and then all at once you are caught up in a rush of unforeseen events.”

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