How did CC come up with the idea for The X-Files?
• “I just wanted to do something as scary as I remember the Night Stalker was when I was in my teens.” • “I was interested science. My brother is a physicist, and I’m kind of a dilettante amateur scientist. But, magic – the unexplained, a mystery – is always fun to write about. What I really wanted was to do a good scary show. This was the summer of 1992. The two characters I came up with sort of represented those two sides of myself: the scientific and the intuitive. Then I switched genders. At the same time, a bunch of other elements came together. You know you start working on something, and all of a sudden your antennae become fixed. . I saw a guy who worked for the FBI on Larry King whose detail was satanic cults. He said that he had not found one ounce of truth in any of those things. But I found it interesting that they had somebody specifically investigating something like that. And Silence of the Lambs had come out, which I thought was beautifully done, and I actually studied
