David:One of the advantages of doing a film is that the richness of the English language in its cursing forms is open to you. So Mulder and Scully are a lot more gutter-mouth. They're still FBI agents, so it's not like The Jerry Springer Show. But you hear more than dammit, which is as far as we go on TV.
-TV Guide

David: We're going to try to make [the movie] as different from the TV show as possible. In fact, recasting Mulder and Scully might be a good idea. The joke was always Richard Gere and Jodie Foster. But now I'm thinking Matthew Perry and Courteney Cox.
-Details Magazine

Gillian: Everything was about bees. All the shots we did before the [scenes with the real] bees were pretending that we were being attacked by bees. Finally, I was like, 'All right, already, bring out the bees.' I certainly don't remember any of my college classes having to roll around and pretend I was being attacked by bees.
-X-Files Movie Official Magazine

Gillian: It wasn't that bad, no. I mean we are used to 14 to 16 hours a day, five days a week 9.5 months out of the year. So when you put that next to a shoot when you are only shooting two pages as opposed to seven or nine pages a day and you've got long breaks in between while they are setting up all the lights and dealing with the special effects. It just doesn't seem all that bad. Now I have to preface that by saying I had an easier schedule than David did and he may have experienced it differently. But that was my experience. So I kind of felt like I was on vacation while we were shooting this.
–Entertainment Tonight

David: [Filming a movie is] much slower. Much more technical, because you've got a big screen to fill perfectly, rather than a small screen that you can kind of cheat with. You have to figure out how to pace yourself, because you can go two weeks without saying a line. Or you just say ‘Let's go!' or ‘Gotta run!' It's a mental rest. You don't have to prepare yourself to run across snow. How do you act that? You just do it.
-US Magazine

David: I think you might see my ass. No, really, we shot my ass, we definitely did, but I don't know if it will be in the movie. But my ass is on film. . . . The only reason I agreed to show my ass is because it's so extraneous, you can't believe it. It's almost as bad as if we were driving, and I decided to moon somebody. . . . It's like 'Here's the ass shot.' I think that's great, because when they try to work it in, like 'Here's the love scene,' I hate that." . . . "You see the ass in a hospital gown, because I get hurt." . . . "It makes a little sense that I'm not wearing underwear in a hospital gown. But that you have to show my ass? My injured ass, nonetheless? Was it Bird on a Wire where Goldie Hawn takes the bullet out of Mel Gibson's ass? That was pretty funny. I like those kinds of ass scenes. When there's a bullet in the ass, you should show the ass. But I don't know if mine will make it in. Chris is, like, weighing my ass right now. It's like this: He's got one cheek in this hand and one in the other going, 'I don't know ... I don't know ...' But he's got a whole year to figure it out. And I'm like, 'Show my ass while it's still nice. If you want to show my ass, let's shoot it early in the show while I'm still working out and not too tired.' These are all stipulations.
-Cinemania

David: (About the helicopter stunt)
We were followed at an altitude that was a little too low for my liking--or at least my hair's liking. A guy comes to you and says, 'Well, you know, the helicopters aren't going to land on you.' And you're like, 'Yeah, they shouldn't, I'm aware of that.' But they come awful close and they're really loud. Again, once you've survived that and once you haven't been killed, you're grateful because you don't need to act. All you have to do is just exist in that moment, [when it's already] loud and scary and windy and you're screaming. So it takes care of any other acting that you had to do. You just throw that out the window, 'cause basically, you're just trying to survive in this area. Which is fun, because the less acting you do the better.
-The X-Files Official Movie Magazine

Gillian: I think that, hmm I don't think [David] dropped me once, I don't think. You know originally it was the other way around, I was carrying him but I was wearing these really high heels and I kept slipping on the ice and so they had to change the roles, and also my clothes wouldn't fit him so they had to change.
–Entertainment Tonight

David: Yesterday, James Cameron and Leonardo DiCaprio visited the set to say hello. This soundstage is where they filmed a big chunk of Titanic; Cameron calculated that where our snow hole is, there was probably a flooded stateroom a few months ago. He said good luck, and that he bet he made Kate Winslet scream a lot more in his film than Gillian does in this one.
-Entertainment Weekly

David: Gillian and I were running through [the bees], you know, five, ten, 15, 20 times, and finally at around 3:30, one of the producers Dan Sackheim, came up to me and said, 'I'm going to have to force you tomorrow,' which means that I don't get my normal 12 hours off in between finishing work and coming back to work. And I said, 'Why? . . . [Y]ou know, I like my time off.' And he said, 'Well, the bees have to wrap by 4:00.' And I wish I was making this up. I really do. This was my response: I said, 'The bees have to wrap by 4:00?' And they said, 'Well, as the sun starts to go down, the bees start to get cranky.' Queen or no. And I said, 'You think those bees get cranky?' So actually, what happened was in the end I changed representation. Now the bees' agent represents me.
-Letterman

Gillian: Scully may get in a lot of bad fixes in this movie, but she doesn't lose it — if anything, it's Fox who goes a little wilder, gets more scared, in this movie.
-Entertainment Weekly

David: I’m runnin'. I’m jumpin'. I’m fallin'. I’m the runningist, jumpingist man on television. And now I’m trying to be the runningist, jumpingist man in film.
-E! News Daily

Gillian: The corn field itself was probably one of my least favorite experiences on the film.
–E! News Daily

David: You’re running fast, you’re watching your step, and it goes "whack!" It’s, these corn stalks, they’re, they’re like clubs.
–E! News Daily

Gillian:The relationship between Mulder and Scully in the film is, is much stronger, and more tender, and more intimate than we've ever seen. And it's really romantic in a, in a wonderful, wonderful way.
–E! News

Gillian: No, [I didn't get beat up too] badly [in the movie]. I got dragged through some stuff, but I don't think any of it was so uncomfortable that I...well, maybe I'll take that back. It becomes very technical when you're in the middle of it--all about the head position and when to let the goop out of your mouth.
-E! Online

David: The thing that stands out the most is the amount of time it took. We're used to shooting seven to nine pages a day for the series, and for the film, we did an average of about two. We generally shot 12 hours a day on the movie, whereas we do about 16 hours a day on the series.
-E! Online

Gillian: It takes a lot longer to set up shots for the movie, so the breaks in between were longer. I had more time to spend with my daughter. To tell you the truth, I felt like I was on vacation, even though I was shooting a movie.
–E! Online

David: I'm telling you, we did it. We ran through that [bee] scene 15 times and never got stung. What they do is take away the queen bee--put her in a nice trailer and let her kick back--and the worker bees aren't as aggressive.
-Entertainment Weekly

David: [The movie] had a really difficult balancing act to do. I think it pulled it off admirably. You've got all of the people who watch the X-Files, and the movie is designed to please them. What you also have is people who don't watch the X-Files, who saw that Duchovny guy and that Anderson girl and said, 'I don't want anything to do with them.' I think those people are actually going to like the film.
-The Sci-Fi Channel Dominion

David: I was looping the movie about a month ago and Dan Sackheim, the producer, said, 'You get up from this long speech about who you are and why you're sad, and you kind of - you kind of have this woozy moment. I'd like to put in, like, a little noise there, you know, just to drive home the fact that you've been drinking too much. So I look at it and I get up off the stool and I go, like, 'uh.' That wasn't so good, and I said, 'My mouth's open a little. Let me throw a burp in there' 'cause I thought it's perfect. It's like all this backstory's been in my stomach and now I've regurgitated it and now it's like I got it out. And I thought, OK, well, that's the most graceful backstory I've ever seen, and I was happy with that. Gillian's was not as - she didn't have the benefit of being drunk. She had that, 'Mulder, when I joined the Bureau five years ago, it was like' - [makes alarm sounds] flashing lights, here comes backstory. Unfortunately, she wasn't allowed to drink during that scene. So it was easier for me, and I don't think she burped at the end of her scene, either. I think maybe she can go back and do that.
-TV Guide Entertainment Network

Gillian: Well, there was one scene, I think in some of the final shots where we did where I had to have my face pressed against the ice for an exorbitant amount of time and that was probably my least favorite few minutes of the entire filming of the film. I mean my face was literally as hard as a rock when I was done, and I stood in front of a heater and then dethawed for a while and then knocked the sh-- out of Bowman.
-Entertainment Tonight

Gillian: Well those days, they get a little uncomfortable. I mean at certain times it gets a little tiresome. It is a bit of a nuisance to have stuff flying in your face and to be swallowing some of the goo that is around your mouth and having to do it over and over again, and stuff doesn't work and you know but on the whole.
–Entertainment Tonight

David: (On showing his rear in the film)
[T]he reason I did is so good, because it's in a totally unsexual, asexual way. I bare my ass through a hospital gown. It was something that Chris [Carter] had written into the movie, and part of the fun of the movie was doing certain things that you can never do on TV: showing your ass, or saying 'f---.' I said 'f---' as much as I could.
-US Magazine

David: [The movie is better than the television show] in the sense that we made sure every moment was right before we moved on, which we don't have the luxury of doing on the show. But the movie's not about the acting. A lot of what makes the show work has to do with the realistic and interesting portrayal of human beings. What makes a movie work is different. It's spectacle.
-Movieline

David: There's a lot of climbing, jumping, running, ducking, leaping [in the movie]. It's like playing a game. As an actor, it's a good rest from the harder work of actually acting. It's fun to go out and jump off a building--that's actually the easy part. If you can't look scared jumping off a building, then you need help.
-The X-Files Official Movie Magazine

David: (About the naked Scully scene and how Scully got her arctic clothing)
I was wearing three layers of clothes, so I gave her some of mine. That naked scene, by the way, wasn't in the original script. But my wife read it and said, 'You're missing a great opportunity--it's the one time Mulder gets to handle Scully naked.
-Entertainment Weekly

David: (On how they got back after the Sno-Cat ran out of gas)
It was all downhill, so we just got on our asses in the snow and slid the whole way back to D.C.
-Entertainment Weekly

David: (On using the "Mulder panic face" scene in the movie)
There was something in the script that wasn't funny. So I tried that and Gillian laughed. And she never laughs at anything. I like it when I can make it funny, genuinely funny growing out of a real situation. And I'm proud that I kept doing things my way, rather than giving them more. Now I'm going to have journalists write - [assuming a newscaster's voice] - 'the writers have the good sense to poke fun at Mr. Duchovny's dead-pan acting style.' I'm like, f-- you all, I know exactly what I'm doing.
-Time Out

David: Doing a movie you have a lot more time, which is usually a good thing because you're creating a character and you want as much time as you can get. In TV-land we do about seven or eight pages of script a day. In movieland we do a page and a half, sometimes less. The pace is six times as slow. I didn't need all that time because I wasn't discovering a new character, so it was very hard for me to keep focused. It's also an action movie so there was a lot of set-up, a lot of lighting and a lot of special effects - a lot of alien business. That takes an incredibly long time to do, much more than you'd ever think. We spent three days just doing the exit from the building before the explosion at the opening scene, which is maybe half a page of script. For an actor, that's boring. It just meant I ran into a cab, drove a hundred yards, got out of the cab and said, 'Next time you're buying.' And that took three days. It can drive you crazy. TV, I guess, is more athletic. You're out there hitting the ball every day, you're playing a match every day. A movie is more like playing three matches in three months. I had maybe five days doing what I'd consider heavy scenes - the meat, the fun part of acting. And I had five weeks of running around pointing my flashlight.
-Empire

Gillian: I was happier with the way that the scenes turned out than I thought that I would be, so something worked. One of the things I was most struck by in the film, that I didn't really get as much in the script itself, was that it's a love story. As much as it was a special effects and action film, it really was also about two human beings. -Sci-Fi Entertainment

Gillian: What was exciting about it was the intensity of it. Knowing that there are three, four, five, six cameras rolling at one time getting different angles, different aspects of what's happening. There are cars rigged with flames; there is a car that we are in that is rigged to bounce. There is all of this extracurricular activity going on that has to be timed and work simultaneously. That gets the excitement going, and it gets our energy up and allows us to get more into the intensity of the situation. It was actually a lot of fun.
-X-Files Movie Official Magazine