Chris Carter
Chris Carter
Visionary creator of the TV series The X-Files. He also went on to create three other series for Fox: Harsh Realm, Millennium, and The Lone Gunmen.
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScreenwriter
Date of Birth13 October 1957
CountryUnited States of America
brown jon others seeking
We already know Jon Brown isn't seeking a place, ... And I know there are others who don't want to go.
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New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean
character dark light
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.
lying believe trust-no-one
You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.
pressure
There's always the pressure to make the movie good.
growing-up play fiction
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.'
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I grew up a child of Watergate. It gave me a good dose of skepticism about authority. One of my favorite movies is 'All the President's Men.' Woodward and Bernstein, those guys were my heroes. I have a degree in journalism.
smart people scare
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.
trying want copies
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.
jazz funk ifs
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.
important x-files defined
I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.
airplane thinking artist
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.
thinking different angle
I think science is about the search for God; it just comes at it from a different angle than religion.
games opponents respect-yourself
Respect yourself, your Opponent and the Game