I'm always trying to perfect the romantic comedy, though.

If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

Feelings come and go, unless you don't feel them. Then they stay, and hurt, and grow pear-shaped and weird.

What I liked about Mulder was his quality of not caring what other people thought of him. He was very independent. He wasn't interested in women. I liked that. He had kind of an intellectual quest, but not a sexual quest. That was the challenge of Mulder. Here was a guy that got almost sexually excited about aliens. And I wanted to be able to do that!

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.