Chris Van Allsburg Ideas Quotations

I have lots of ideas. The problem for me has always been which one to do.

I take my ideas from my experiences.

The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

My ideas are not meant to suggest dreams or reality, but a surreal quality.

The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me

Brainstorming, for me, takes place in my bed at night between the time I turn out my lights and I finally fall asleep. It is not a very violent storm, but what's happening is I am just thinking about different ideas and maybe things I've seen that day that I think might make a good story.