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Chris Carter at an event for The X Files: I Want to Believe (2008)

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Chris Carter

  • The day I swan around in expensive suits is the day I hope someone puts a bullet in my head.
  • Fox canceling Harsh Realm (1999) wasn't a surprise to me because it was a very expensive show...it was just disappointing the series didn't have a chance to prove itself.
  • People thought the storyline and characters for The X-Files (1993) made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.
  • It takes crazy attention to detail if you want something to be good.
  • The television business changed a lot from when I did The X-Files (1993) to when we did Harsh Realm (1999). Television took on the characteristics of the feature film industry, where, if the show didn't open 'big' out-of-the-gate...it was canceled, immediately.
  • I had been to Vancouver a few years prior to bringing The X-Files (1993) there ... so, as a filmmaker, it wasn't a discovery for me because I had friends who knew the area and had shot there before. ...Vancouver really became my home away from home, and to this day I still own a house there.
  • You long for writers like Neil Gaiman. His vision is so personal and idiosyncratic, and unexpected.

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