Latest David Duchovny Quotes from Interviews

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• There are people who are really great musicians. I've met a lot of them. And I'm not a great musician. I'm adequate enough to be able to throw some chords together and write songs, but I can only feel that because I'm expressing something honestly, or in a heartfelt way, or in some way that's not bullshit, that in some way the songs have merit.

  David Duchovny

  Song, Writing, People

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.

  David Duchovny

  Memories, Past, Ghost

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

  David Duchovny

  Kind, Remember, Painful

  Source: www.esquire.com

• I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention.

  David Duchovny

  Reading, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• TV was the boogey man when I was growing up. Video games are the boogey man now. The novel was once a boogey man. Books about lowborn people doing lowborn things were once considered a real assault on people's morals. Maybe some day video games will be looked on as a good thing, but personally I don't see it.

  David Duchovny

  Growing Up, Real, Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible.

  David Duchovny

  Sports, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I reread "Ball Four" by Jim Bouton, the father of all sports books. Aside from that, and books like "Out of Their League" by Dave Meggyesy, sports books generally pull their punches.

  David Duchovny

  Sports, Father, Book

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I also watch a lot of really bad television when I'm writing, "Like Dancing With the Stars," with my daughter.

  David Duchovny

  Daughter, Stars, Writing

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• Maybe with "Californication" the character was partly based on Rick Moody. I read him and Jay McInerney, the templates for this bad boy novelist.

  David Duchovny

  Character, Boys, Novelists

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I will read biographies or autobiographies while I'm writing, but mostly I put books in a to-read queue, like Rachel Cusk's new novel, "Outline."

  David Duchovny

  Book, Writing, Biographies

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I'm a big Philip Roth fan. I think "American Pastoral" is the great American novel of the past 30 to 40 years. It's a novel about what happened in the 1960s, and I think America is still dealing with what happened then. It's devastatingly sad.

  David Duchovny

  Past, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I'm not reading currently because I'm getting revisions of a novel. If I read while I'm writing I will unconsciously plagiarize and go to jail.

  David Duchovny

  Reading, Writing, Jail

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot.

  David Duchovny

  Century, Eliot, Dickens

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• Becoming an actor made me way more interested in plot.

  David Duchovny

  Plot, Actors, Way

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I don't know if [Samuel] Beckett is something you ever bring to the beach - get out of the water, towel off, and start reading some of "The Unnamable." Although, because it's the kind of book you can open to any page and start reading, it is beach reading in that way.

  David Duchovny

  Beach, Book, Reading

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I would say recently I've gotten back to perusing [Samuel] Beckett's novels. Listening to the way Donald Trump speaks without saying anything has made me think about language.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Listening, Way

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• I think it was W.H. Auden who said he was lucky that his first favorite poet was Thomas Hardy, who was a good but not a great poet, because if you are exposed to the greats too soon it can just squash you as a writer.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Squash, Lucky

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• At Princeton I wrote my junior paper on Virginia Woolf, and for my senior thesis I wrote on Samuel Beckett. I wrote some about "Between the Acts" and "Mrs. Dalloway'' but mostly about "To the Lighthouse." With Beckett I focused, perversely, on his novels, "Molloy," "Malone Dies," and "The Unnamable." That's when I decided I should never write again.

  David Duchovny

  Senior, Writing, Virginia

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

• Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

  David Duchovny

  Years, Human Nature, Humans

  "David Duchovny & Gillian Anderson On Reopening ‘The X-Files’ And The Possibility Of More – Awardsline". Interview with Joe Utichi, deadline.com. June 17, 2016.

• I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

  David Duchovny

  Ebay, Tubs, X Files

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

• I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

  David Duchovny

  Believe, People, Belief

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

• A bath tub, apparently, was the first thing I wanted to be.

  David Duchovny

  Tubs, Firsts, Baths

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

• I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.

  David Duchovny

  Thinking, Tubs, Baths

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

• You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

  David Duchovny

  Floating, Strange, Heard

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Empire Magazine Interview, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.

• It seems unlikely that we're alone in the universe. But I'm pretty sure nobody's hiding any contact.

  David Duchovny

  Hiding, Unlikely, Contact

  "X-Files Archive: David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in conversation". Interview with Nick De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. January 1, 2013.