| FAQ -(continued) |
| What About Secrets of the Production Side? |
| - "With the directors we have, I'm very emphatic about certian ways we do things. These shows are always scary by camera's going to make it scary. How the show will differ from many shows...is that we to tell a story with a camera... We actually have to-- the camera reveal things. Has to see things that are just at the right time. The point of view is everything in story telling anyway-- but particularly where you are trying to scare people. Because you have to scare people form a sunjective-- you cant scare people from an objective point of view. Well, you can. But mostly you're scaring them with a scare you're delivering to someone on screen." - " I have rules. And you know the rules are always made to be broken. The directors break them, wondefuly, sometimes" -"I don't like the camera in motion for no reason at all. I don't like it pivoting like a character would swivel its neck , unless it is somebody's point of view. The camera has to move in a way i call "Slow Camera, Stiff Neck." I don't want that camera flying through space. We have a high crane available to us at all times. And particullarly for this kind of storytelling. I think you have to tell a very story very quietly. ...That's pretty much it. The camera shouldn't move independently of the action. You don't want the camera telling you a story instead of the characters telling you a story." |
| Where did title "The Truth is Out There" in the credits come from? |
| "That one hit me because i wanted soemthing that summed up the philosophy of the show in those main titles." |
| Why does Mulder put tape on his window in the shape of an 'X'? |
| Mulder used to do this to signal X when he wanted to meet with him again. |
| Where did the character 'Deep Throat' come from? |
| "Watergate was like the 'big bang' of my moral universe, I was 15 or 16 when it spilled out n the American consciousness ad conscience. So the idea of questioning authority, trusting no one, is part of the fiber of bieng. Deep Throat, of course, came from them infamous Watergate fingure who may or may not have exsited - the guy who told Woodward and Bernstien to follow the money. Our Deep Throat emerges from some shadowy level of the government, and leads Mulder and Scully,carefuly and selectively. He helps them when they reach a dead end or take a wrong turn, but never gives them too much and he is not 100% on their side." |
| Has Chris ever appeared on The X files ? |
| In the second season's cliffhanger, Anasazi. Carter had appeared as an FBI agent that questioned Scully. |
| What did Carter have to say about writting P.M. Dawn's contribution, If You Never Say Goodbye? |
| " I play the piano poorly, but i am a closet lycricist. I realized with this song how hard ut is to do something beautiful and crystal in three minutes or less. This is one of the dividends I'd never expected whe the show started, that i'd get to work with musicians like this, i stand in awe of them. It's thier world that seems a real mystery to me. |
| How did Chris get Lance Henriksen to do TV? |
| - CC had Lance in mind when when coming up with the idea of Franl Black, he didn't think he would be able to get him. Henrikson would never had condsider a televison role. After learning that the actor was staying at Vancouver hotel, Chris bypassed Henrikson's agents and slipped a personal note under his door. " i did it because every time I tried to get him on The X-Files, his agents would say, 'Not intrested in television.' My note symply said i was a fan and that i hoped that we could work together some time," Chris says. "I was very touched by that," says Henrikson. "Nobody had ever made it that personal. But I still didn't do it. I didnt call him back either. I just never thought of television. There was almost a kind of movie snobbery about it. But then i got the script." The two met for dinner to discuss the project and hit it off immediatley. "My fist question to him was, 'Chris this is going to scare the hell out of people. Where is the hope?' " Carter, who has long been a fan of the actor's, saw Henriksen as someone who could assimilate the horrors of the world in which his character dwells with the lofe he's trying to build with his wife and his young daughter. It is the existence of the one which makes the other bearable, and the omnipresent threat of evil and violencewhich drives Frank to strive to fight it. "The hope is that there can be something we can do to stem the tide of what seems to be an ever-growing, worsening situation in the world," Carter says. "And thats is what Frank is about too. He wants his family to live in a safe place. It is no accidnet that he paints his house yellow. You paint away the darkness. You do whatever you can. My telling of life - and thats is rather a grim outlook but i think it's true- is that everything get's worse. Dirt comes in. The grime. And we are always sweeping it away. We are cleaning. We are organizing. Chaos reigns. Even though that there is a beautiful, physical order in the world - everything seems to make sense on the cellular level and in a way we breathe and everything else - nature kind of encroaches. And we try our best to carve out of the jungles cities with order and places where we can live in a human way." |