The actor tells that Carter offered him the chance to write and
direct in season 11, but it didn’t come together. “I had an idea that I
was toying with, which is actually a movie idea,” Duchovny says, “and I
was trying to figure out if I could transpose it into being an X-File.
Because then you have to add two characters that demand a lot of time,
Mulder and Scully. And you have to tell it in 45 minutes, so you’ve got
to shrink it in half while adding two major characters. And in the end, I
couldn’t see how it would work.”
“If I’m going to direct a show,” he explains, “it necessitates that I’m
very light in the [previous episode] so I can prep it, and it
necessitates that I’m somewhat light in the show afterwards, so that I
can do post. So really what I’m asking for, if I’m directing an X-File,
is, Okay, you’re doing 10, but I’ve got to be light in three out of
those 10. And that’s just not fair, really.”
“Chris was very generous in asking me to do it,” Duchovny says. “I hope I
didn’t disappoint him by not coming through, but I’ll just be acting.”
“I text Chris every day nudging him to send me whatever he’s got,” he
says. “I’m supposed to get something very soon. Maybe today. Maybe
tomorrow.”
Source: EW