Chris Carter Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Chris Carter quotes and sayings page 3 (68 year old producer). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 34 we have for him.
“I hope that I'm not simply defined by 'The X-Files,' and I hope I have more work that is important to do.”
“I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.”
“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.'”
“In Canada, I climbed some mountains with the Alpine Club of Canada, which taught me a lot about stamina.”
“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.”
“Even if I see 300 'X-Files' fans together, I can't fathom - I cannot imagine - the audience itself. All I think about is the show and all I think about is why I like it and why I like to write it and why I like the characters and what I have to say through them.”
“I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.”
“'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.”
“It's funny - I was a big fan of 'The Sopranos.' It became kind of a threat to 'The X-Files' in a way because they could play with language, character, and story in ways that we never could because of the limitations of network television.”
“The experience of seeing a surf movie in the 1970s, as a teenager, and the energy in those theatres, was amazing. It was the only way to see people surfing. These guys would go out and make these surf movies and bring them to four-wall theatres. It was an incredible experience that I'll never forget.”
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