The X Files is so different from everything else that is done on network television. It is different in approach. I think it�s much more plot-driven and much more idea-driven than most television dramas. One hour dramas that tend to be about characters.

I think production wise it�s insanely ambitious, almost impossible to achieve every week. Most one hour dramas you�re in the same standing set for the majority of the time. On The X Files most of the time you�re out in completely new locations.

Every week there�s a big idea that is completely different. There�s a new set of rules, there�s a new paranormal phenomenon that has nothing to do with what came the week before.

So it�s a hugely ambitious show that tries to be cinematic in it�s approach. You look at an X Files shooting script and it�s unlike any other shooting script for a one hour drama on television. It�s trying to direct itself in the writing because there is so much that needs to be achieved in our shooting schedule .

Unless you�re specific with a director from the page about how you can achieve all this with the time and money we�ve got, it wouldn�t be possible. It�s a very difficult show to write for, and I�ve always felt the enormous pressure to try and achieve the work in the time allowed from the moment I got here.

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