There's always the pressure to make the movie good.

Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game

When something original works, then everyone wants to copy it. But if you're trying to do something that no one's ever seen before it's frightening.

Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be.

I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.

It's really hard to scare people on network television. You've got to be smart about it. You've got to parcel out the scares.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

People thought the storyline and characters for 'X-Files' made it a 'dark' show, but I never saw it that way. I always thought Mulder and Scully were the light in dark places.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

Being against evil doesn't make you good.

A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.

Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my consolation" “blue

The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards.

That's the funny thing about havin' a kid. They come with their own set of problems; make everything else you were worried about seem kinda silly.

One breath at a time. One day at a time. Wake up, and be shredded. Cry for a while. Then stop crying and go about your day. You're not okay, but you're alive, and you will be okay, someday.

Showtunes might be able to come back into pop music, which is something we haven't seen since the 50s and 60s. Everything is related to everything else because we're in such a niche industry.

Many great ideas go unexecuted, and many great executioners are without ideas. One without the other is worthless.