"Wily as a FOX"
David Duchovny quote
"The interesting
thing about everybody's interest in the relationship between Mulder
and Scully is that they want some kind of resolution to it. But
when you look at the show, each week something happens to Mulder
and/or Scully that is completely life-changing, yet we come back
the next week a if nothing had happened."
"It's
unnatural, I know, but in a weekly series you can not have things
change the way they would in real life. You can not have the kind
of resolution you want in real life. I thing it's best if Mulder
and Scully just keep teasing the viewers the way they do."
"Making
Contact With David Duchovny: A Close Encounter with the X-Files'
August Agent."
Higgons, Jenny (Playgirl )
"[I]t's
so easy to jump into bed. Who needs to see that? That happens
on every show. What's so hard about having sex? It's the same
thing as nudity . . . big deal. It's better to have two people
who are actually interested in each other beyond that. The easiest
thing in the world is to be attracted to somebody. It's harder
to actually live with them and work with them. And that's a fact,
Jack."
From The EVE
FILES:
"We do that as little as possible because, honestly, who
wants to see Mulder and Scully together?" - Vince Gilligan
From "Cinescape"
Magazine
Volume 3, Number 11
ISSN# 1077-3363
Page 22
Interview with Frank Spotnitz
Q: Chris Carter
once said that The X-Files is about the stories more than it's
about the characters. Do you think that's changed?
Frank Spotnitz:
I don't, actually. The truth is, we are very plot driven, and
we spend a great deal of time making sure that our plots advance,
that every piece of information pushes forward another piece of
information and that the stories have a symmetry and ideas come
around and make full circle by the end of the episode. And Mulder
and Scully drive the plots forward and their competing views of
trhe world are really what make the stories go. But by and large,
the stories aren't about them. It's their attitudes that expose
what's going on, but they're rarely very personal. And if you
tink about it, we actually know very little about them or their
private lives. And I think it is true that as we get into our
fifth season there are going to be more episodes where you will
get more of a glimpse of their provate lives. We'll learn more
about Mulder's mother because it tells us something about the
conspiracy or about Cigarette-Smoking Man or Mulder's alien abduction
memories concerning Samantha. We never are melodramatic simply
to be melodramatic. Everything's in service to the story.
From "Cinescape" Magazine
Volume 3, Number 11
ISSN# 1077-3363
Page 38
Interview with Chris Carter
Q: As you well know, many fans have become so
attached to Mulder and Scully that they'd like to see more about
their personal lives. Do you feel the characters could be successful
if removed from specific paranormal or conspiracy stories?
Chris Carter: Well, I'm just not interested in doing that.
From "Cinescape"
Magazine
Volume 3, Number 11
ISSN# 1077-3363
Page 38
Interview with Chris Carter
"There are shows that are about the characters and their
lives, and this is one of them. It just so happens that we learn
about the characters and their lives through the telling of X-Files."
-Chris Carter
Australian's May 30-June 5, 1999
Sunday Telegraph TV Guide w/ DD on the cover.
"I think
it's best not to, because once you form a relationship between
a man and a woman that's physical or sexual or emtional, that
becomes the focus of the show." -David Duchovny, on his instincts
towards Mulder and Scully getting involved.
