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  • Chris Carter
  • James Hong
  • John Bartley
  • Peter Boyle
  • Vince Gilligan
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People Talking About This Show

  • John Bartley
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on getting hired for The X-Files (01m 35s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on his impressions of the X-Files pilot, and his own work on the series (00m 58s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on lighting The X-Files when he first started (01m 54s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on the set of The X-Files and the long hours he and the crew put in (01m 51s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on adding color to The X-Files as he continued with the show (00m 39s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on the kinds of equipment he used on The X-Files (03m 02s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on watching The X-Files on TV while he worked on the show (00m 38s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on the directors of The X-Files (01m 11s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on a typical workday on The X-Files (01m 07s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on working with X-Files leads David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson (01m 26s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on the look of The X-Files (01m 04s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on leaving The X-Files (00m 48s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on the amount of darkness in the lighting of The X-Files (00m 38s)
    • Director of Photography John Bartley on X-Files / Roswell producer-director David Nutter (00m 50s)
  • Peter Boyle
    • Peter Boyle on his guest-starring role as Clyde Bruckman on The X-Files (02m 21s)
  • Chris Carter
    • Chris Carter describes coming up with X-Files  characters Mulder and Scully; the origin of their names
    • Chris Carter on the premise of the X-Files, "I Want to believe"; his thoughts on area abduction
    • Chris Carter on pitching X-Files to Fox executives; reaction to the pilot
    • Chris Carter on casting X-Files; Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny
    • Chris Carter on the filming the pilot of the X-Files; audience reaction to the debut; the mythology arc
    • Chris Carter on the X-Files main theme and title
    • Chris Carter on the character's motivation in the first season of X-Files; the romance, the themes and goals
    • Chris Carter on Mulder's shooting on X-Files; the family relationships; coming up with story ideas
    • Chris Carter on the X-Files' core audience
    • Chris Carter on the X-Files Season 1 finale
    • Chris Carter on the X-Files' cigarette smoking man, Deep Throat, and the Lone Gunman
    • Chris Carter on the X-Files' Post-modern Prometheus episode
    • Chris Carter on David Duchovny's leaving X-files and the season 7 finale and the season 7 finale
  • Vince Gilligan
    • Vince Gilligan on getting hooked on the X-Files in 1993 and getting an introduction to Chris Carter, who was related to Gilligan's agent
    • Vince Gilligan on writing the X-Files episode "Soft Light" and then being offered a job as a staff writer on the show, which he initially turned down
    • Vince Gilligan on the  X-Files "The second greatest job of my life" that taught him everything he needed to know about writing for TV; on the mythology versus the standalone episodes
    • Vince Gilligan on the writers' room at X-Files; on the first episode he wrote as a staff writer "Pusher"; on the writing process (02m 16s)
    • Vince Gilligan on what he liked about the lack of rules on X-Files for the writers
    • Vince Gilligan on Folie Aux Deux- an X-Files episode he wrote and how the visual element was incorporated into the show; on why the visual is as important as the dialogue (02m 14s)
    • Vince Gilligan on the importance of the visual element on X-Files and his input as a writer
    • Vince Gilligan on the only script he wrote for X-Files that was re-written
    • Vince Gilligan on the censorship limits on X-Files; on the episode "Pusher" about Russian Roulette; on the episode "Paper Hearts" where he couldn't show an entry wound (02m 33s)
    • Vince Gilligan on the writers on The X-Files;
    • Vince Gilligan on the conspiracy theories explored by writers on The X-Files; on the influences for the show
    • Vince Gilligan on whether the writers on  X-Files  actually believed in supernatural phenomena: on "I Want to Believe"
    • Vince Gilligan on the X-Files episode "Bad Blood" influenced by the film "Rashomon"
    • Vince Gilligan on how the  X-Files  writer's room would "break" the story by building a scene "brick by brick" ; the hardest part of writing for TV (03m 14s)
    • Vince Gilligan on how much the writers on the X-Files were aware of the early Internet forums and fan chat rooms
    • Vince Gilligan on the X-Files mythology episodes 
    • Vince Gilligan on the balance between comedy and drama on the X-Files; on his reputation for writing the funnier episodes; his episode "Small Potatoes"
    • Vince Gilligan on the first episode of X-Files he directed "Je Souhaite" (I Wish) in Season 7
    • Vince Gilligan on directing the X-Files episode "Sunshine Days" in which Michael Emerson someone who imagined he was living in the Brady Bunch house, which they reconstructed for the episode (05m 41s)
    • Vince Gilligan on the  X-Files  episode "Drive" where he met and worked with actor Bryan Cranston for the first time; later Cranston would star in Gilligan's  Breaking Bad  series playing a similar role, and why Cranston was perfect to play a "sympathetic creep" (07m 06s)
    • Vince Gilligan on being nominated for an Emmy for an X-Files episode "Memento Mori" 
    • Vince Gilligan on the  X-Files  episode "Memento Mori" in which Scully gets cancer
    • Vince Gilligan on how the writers adapted to news that David Duchovny was leaving X-Files
    • Vince Gilligan on the "jump the shark" episode of X-Files and the resolution for the Lone Gunmen spinoff series (03m 07s)
    • Vince Gilligan on the finale of X-Files
    • Vince Gilligan on the legacy of X-Files (01m 02s)
  • James Hong
    • Actor James Hong briefly on guest-starring on The X-Files (01m 14s)
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