"When I finally made it to the set, I spent a lot of time doing damage control on The Magic Christian"

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning"

"Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled"

"The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ"

"Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile"

"My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind"

"I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers"

"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross"

"Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ"

"No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul"

"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"