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'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.

'X-Men' films have always been big, and necessarily so, because of the stories they have to tell.

For a little while there, I was thinking, 'I don't want to be in anything on British TV'. I didn't watch any of it because it was rubbish.

We've had American TV shows in Britain for years and that hasn't affected our culture at all.

I was a big 'X-Files' fan. I always lamented that I never got to be on 'The X-Files'.

The thing about the UK is we don't really make that many great movies.

I don't enjoy British shows as a rule because British audiences are strange.

I remember when I saw 'X-Men' the first time, I was living in England as an exchange student, and my first boyfriend, who's an Englishman, made me watch the movie... He was very jealous that I liked Hugh Jackman so much.

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.