Polar Quotes

(on the CGI used in The Polar Express (2004)) It`s the same stuff they used in that fourth "Lord of the Rings" movie. Or was it the 19th "Lord of the Rings" movie? You know, the one where Boldo and Jingy travel across the bridge? I don`t know, I don`t know their names. When I watch "Lord of the Rings", I just think, "Someone got their finger stuck on the word processor for too long".

It always amazed me that he was able to do it, and that Orson Welles was able to do it. I never understood it because the talents are absolutely opposite - polar opposites.

(Ball is one of the few musical comedy artists to have distinguished himself equally as an interpreter of both Andrew Lloyd Webber and Stephen Sondheim, who would seem to be polar opposites as songwriters.) I`m very lucky that I`ve gotten to work with both of them, ... I was in Andrew Lloyd Webber`s 50th party concert at the Albert Hall. That same year I was in a special show called Hey, Mr. Producer , a celebration of Cameron Mackintosh`s work. There was a Sondheim section, and Cameron asked if I`d be part of it. I`d already recorded `Losing My Mind` from Follies , which is one of my favorite songs of Steve`s. But I hadn`t yet done a particularly traditional treatment of it. Steve said he wanted me to do it absolutely straight, the way it was heard in the original show, which I was delighted about. And he worked with me on it--just him, and me, and a pianist in a tiny room, for an hour-and-a-half master class on this song. I came away knowing every nuance; why he wrote everything that he did; why every note was in its place; why the phrasing was like this--can you imagine how thrilling that was? And he is so articulate in explaining his work; you can be under no illusion why something is there. When you have that understanding, that is when his work opens up to you. Of course, they put me between Judi Dench singing `Send in the Clowns` and Bernadette Peters doing `Being Alive.` You try holding your own in that company!

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.

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

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

The biblical account of Noah`s Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine?

Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

A multi-polar world can not exist without recognising the status and participation of developing countries.