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X Files | Interviews | Frank Spotnitz
Turning base into gold

Were you sceptical about The X Files' ability to succeed when you first saw it?

I was sceptical because too often when television tries to do cinematic stuff it looks like television. You see the lack of money, you see the lack of time.

They [the producers] were just so smart in their approach: The counterpoints they gave Mulder and Scully, and what they showed you of the monster. More importantly what they didn�t show you of the monster. How much they relied on you to connect the pieces your self.

I think especially in the early days it was the brains of the show that caught people and made them stick. Then, of course, [there was] just the incredibly chemistry that David and Gillian had from the start. That�s the kind of thing that no television producer can expect or count on. When you get that it�s like gold because so much of this show depends on the chemistry of its leads.

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