David on the X-Files"Gillian and I have a brother/sister relationship. If you work with someone daily for twelve hours, that person, if she is smart and Gillian is smart shouldn't want to meet the other person after hours. That's also true for the other way round."-----------"Mr. X" German GQ magzine, Oct 98 "I don't socialise with Gillian just because we're working together all the time," he says. "You can't describe our relationship as 'like' or 'dislike'. We've been thrown together, two people who don't know each other and forced to spend more time together than married people do." --------------"Like An X Machine" Stuff for Men, Jan/Feb 1999 On working with Gillian Anderson: "She's very focused. She doesn't move on unless she's happy with what she's done, which is nice, especially in a film. On a TV show, sometimes it's two in the morning and you want to get home. It was a decent take; it wasn't your best, but it was good enough and you can sleep. But she usually does another one at that point, which I always find pretty impressive." -----"Fox Mulder Goes Hollywood" SciFi Entertainment, Dec 98 ----"Why I'll Never Be Xtremely Happy" TV Times, Oct 98 With as much time as is required to do the series,one wonders if DD the person ever finds FM coming through his own personality. "That's a good question," the actor says with a grin. "Maybe I do. I find that one of the things I have to guard against as an actor having done the show for so long is that I don't get greedy and say, 'I'm bored, therefore I want Mulder to have a girlfriend' or, 'I'm bored, therefore I want Mulder to have a French accent today.' "You know, these things that would make it interesting for me as an actor but would be bad for the show or bad for the character, so it's more like watching that David doesn't get in the way of Mulder. Mulder I know I can control very easily; David is another." He pauses before continuing, "I get bored but then there are different challenges and there are more subtle challenges. I think the all important aspect to maintaining the quality of the show is to not be bored. You've just got to find challenges where they are and I like to talk about how bored I am but I'm not really THAT bored." ----------"Fox TV" Cult Times, January 1999 "I wanted to be more involved in the life and backstory of my character, so from the 2nd Season, I started offering ideas for certain episodes to Chris Carter (Colony, Anasazi). What interested me was not stories about monsters or aliens, but rather the psychology of the characters. The only episode which was completely my idea was for Mitch Pileggi, the actor who portrays Skinner, the Assistant Director of the FBI. He appears often in the series, but only for a few scenes. You know virtually nothing about him. I wanted him to have an episode that was his alone, so I wrote 'Avatar' for him. He even has a scene that's pretty...hot (knowing smile). He was very happy. "I do not think that Mulder trusts any one other than Scully. He s very solitary. She is the only one who takes him seriously. I don t know if they re in love. In a way, their relationship is deeper than that, because they cannot live without each other. "When I play a scene with Gillian Anderson, there are always little looks between us which mean 'what do you think about what s happening?' It s a little as if we have secrets between us. Everything is conveyed by communication beyond words. Perhaps, after all, you could interpret that as love [cynical smile]. But from that to imagining Mulder and Scully as a couple... I don t think that s going to happen one day. The intrigue is so intense in episodes of The X-Files and the script so focused on the paranormal, that I have difficulty seeing Mulder and Scully hiding somewhere, waiting for the villains, talking about the problem of the lavatory seat being left up all the time. That s for Dynasty! -----"Duchovny XRayed", Nov 98 Back to Main page
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