Mark Burnett Quotes

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.

While childhood, and while dreams, producing childhood, shall be left, imagination shall not have spread her holy wings totally to fly the earth.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

Seeing to it that a youngster grows up believing not just in the here and now but also in the grand maybes of life guarantees that some small yet crucial part of him remains forever a child.

Everybody is idealistic when you're a kid.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

I think all human beings have a propensity to believe in things, and to have hope, and I think as a child especially you have a lot of hope and you believe in a lot of things, and your bedroom is a safe space and an imaginative space where you can escape and go off into wherever you want.

To write for children at all is an act of faith.

I am Peter Pan. He represents youth, childhood, never growing up, magic, flying.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid?

I guess maybe I'm idealistic.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

Mr. Disney believed everyone was still a child deep inside.

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

Like, you can find your dream, if you firmly believe. You have to have the innocence, and you have to have the daringness to trust.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the case with a lot of kids. The whole idea of escapism really resonates with a lot of kids.

You have to hold onto your fantasy.

I think we have to believe in things we don't see. That's really important for all of us, whether it's your religion or Santa Claus, or whatever. That's pretty much what it's about.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

In our dreams we are always young.

Never ever doubt in magic. The purest honest thoughts come from children, ask any child if they believe in magic and they will tell you the truth.