Chris Carter Quotes

The joy of 'The X-files' is how it plays on so many different realities never knowing what is the truth and what is the deception. So my approach to my character has always been that we are alive and have always been alive and were never 'killed off' but held a fake funeral in 'Jump the Shark' to get the heat off of us.

Oh it's clearly a cover up. I mean, I have no reluctance in saying that.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

I like 'X-Files'-type shows with government conspiracies and extraterrestrials and all that.

If Fox Mulder discovered that Larry Sanders was a clone? I think he would stab him . . . but it wouldn't be with an ice pick.

Conspiracy theories are an irresistible labor-saving device in the face of complexity.

I believe conspiracy theories are part of a larger conspiracy to distract us from the real conspiracy. String theory.

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true.

The Roswell incident, for instance, had over three hundred witnesses - some describing the bodies, some the craft, some the military procedures. Were they all perpetuating their own lives in a myth?

I've always enjoyed shows like 'The X-Files,' where you're on the edge of your seat and you're so invested in these characters.

There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.

I'm riddled with cynicism. Whenever anyone says 'trust me,' the hairs go up on the back of my neck.

For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap.

I do not believe in conspiracy theories.

I like science a whole bunch, but I love 'The X-Files' more - I want to believe.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

Hippy, you think everything is a conspiracy. Everything is!

Those that trust no one, usually end up trusting the wrong person."-Umma to Midnight

The individual is handicapped by coming face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists.

Never ascribe to conspiracy that which can be attributed to ignorance.

Everyone loves a conspiracy.

Just because we don't understand why they'd cover up something doesn't mean they aren't," Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. "Now you just sound paranoid," I said. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you," Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn't help but laugh.

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.

Doesn't surprise me," Nana snorted. "I wouldn't put anything past your late husband." "He's not dead, Nana." Nana sighed. "Hope springs eternal.