There are an enormous number of unspoken rules on this show.

For the first several years I was on The X Files it was very difficult because I was one of the few writers who would survive every season. All the old writers would be let go because nobody was making the grade, and then you have a new crop of writers. You have to start all over again every summer.

You knew to explain all these things that you had internalised about what Scully would do, what Mulder would do. Where the camera should be. Where it shouldn�t be. Why you�d like something this way, why you wouldn�t ... just endless numbers of details and a philosophy that people don�t consciously articulate.

Fortunately, the last few years we�ve actually found a group of writers who we�ve stuck with. We�ve had faith that even if they hadn�t got it immediately, they are going to get it. So there�s been a deepening of understanding and a larger group of people internalising what the what the model is.

But it is very hard. Once you understand the model [you say] �Ok I�ve got it. I think I understand what it is Chris Carter wants the series to be. Don�t do it the same way he would. Come up with some thing he wouldn�t think of.� That�s why you�re here. It�s a very tough competitive environment.

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