Jodi Applegate: "The X-Files" remains one of the most popular shows on television. And now, the sci-fi adventure has hit the big screen. The film finds FBI agents Mulder and Scully investigating a Dallas bombing. But typical of the show, there's a twist. And suddenly they've turned up a conspiracy that could threaten all of mankind. And David Duchovny, of course, is Fox Mulder. Thanks very much for being here...

David Duchovny: Thanks for having me.

JA: So, can you explain this whole alien thing to us?

DD: Oh. In the show or just in general?

JA: Well, just..

DD: I'll give it to you in general. I can tell you the truth about alien involvement in the world right now...

JA: We've got four minutes. Tell us what you know.

DD: I don't know anything. I am not privy to any special information.

JA: I guess the challenge is that you have to play to the people who are regular viewers of the show and satisfy the people who have never seen this show. And that's probably a tricky line to walk.

JA: It's very tricky because at this point, like if you haven't seen the show, you probably actively tried to get away from it.

JA: Pretty hard to avoid.

DD: Right, so if you find yourself in the theater watching, you don't know who Mulder and Scully are. You don't know the conspiracies that are floating around. So to make the movie, we had to make it understandable to those people that don't know anything, and also satisfying the people that know everything and want to know more. So what people that don't know the show if they come out of this movie feeling a little confused, they don't understand that the show is supposed to be confusing in some way.

JA: You shouldn't blame yourself if it doesn't make sense because it doesn't even really make sense to a die hard fan?

DD: Right. There are supposed to be mysteries within mysteries. Every time you get one answer, there's another question to ask. So if you don't know the show and you walk out thinking that you're stupid, you're not actually stupid, you're just fallen prey to our wiles again.

JA: So don't get down on yourself.

DD: Please, don't blame yourself.

JA: All right. We've got a clip of the film.

DD: It better be confusing

DD: I think this is probably fairly straightforward because it has to make sense on it's own talking about a microcosm. Here's the clip. See if it makes sense if not, we'll explain after.

Mulder: I'm the key figure in an on-going government charade to plot to conceal the truth about the existence of extra-terrestrials. It's a global conspiracy, actually, with key players from the highest levels of power and it reaches down to the lives of every man, woman, and child on this planet. So of course no one believes me. I'm an annoyance to my superiors, a joke to my peers. They call me Spooky. Spooky Mulder whose sister was abducted by aliens when he was just a kid and who now chases after little green men with a badge and a gun shouting to the heavens or to anyone who will listen that the fix is in that the sky is falling...

JA: How many takes did that require?

DD: Just one....I don't know. We were working on the tone of that scene because they should have had a flashing BACK STORY on that one because that's really a scene where my character is explaining himself to people that don't know who he is, because people that watch the show already know all those things about that character. What was nice about that scene was that he gets drunk in order to do it so there was kind of a self-pitying aspect of that scene was justified because he was drunk and -- but those who know the show, GO GET POPCORN, GO GET POPCORN.

JA: And the bartender cuts him off because she thinks, well, this is outrageous. But, of course, it's reality, at least as far as Mulder is concerned.

DD: It should be kind of funny that he's saying these outrageous things and they're true and she's thinking he's drunk and an idiot.

JA: Do you believe any of this stuff? Do you leave a little door open in your mind thinking, well, it's possible or has it made you do a 180? You know what I don't believe any of this stuff.

DD: First of all, I don't have any doors in my mind.

JA: Okay. Window, an alcove, archway.

DD: You're good.

JA: I was on $100,000 Pyramid.

DD: You're using your hands. Don't use your hands.

JA: That's right.

DD: I think ..... I do, but you know our show has to go too far. We have to show aliens. We have to show paranormal things happening that, you know, I'm almost 38. I have never seen anything close to that. I believe that it's possible. I believe that it's improbable. But possible.

JA: Do you have....

DD: So that's the door. The door is closed but it's unlocked.

JA: Or it's locked, but we have the key, or we lost the key but our friend has the key.

DD: Yes.

JA: Does your show have a different kind of fan? I asked this because as I was coming to work this morning....

DD: Than your show?

JA: Well, we have a broad demographic to any advertisers watching. We have plenty of men and women 18 to 49. As I was coming in the secret NBC entrance, there's usually nobody out there. There were a bunch of autograph seekers. I don't think they were after me because they have no idea who I was. I think "The X-Files" type fans as you might expect figured out where the secret entrance is.

DD: We're smarter than the average fan, perhaps.

JA: You're proud of that, aren't you?

DD: Sure. I think they're very loyal because it started as a cult show. That, you know, the people that were into it early were rabid and they wanted to keep the show on the air. It's like people that liked Springsteen before his first album came out. They're still loving us.

JA: So they're probably angry that it's so popular because they don't feel special anymore?

DD: To use another Rock 'N' Roll metaphor. Our movie is like when Dillon went electric. Some people are going to be angry....to think that we are selling out by doing a movie. But if they see the movie, just as if they would listen to his music at that point, they would know it was good, still.

JA: You are very popular on the internet as one might expect.

DD: I am going to give birth on the internet.

JA: Will you disclose your last name?

DD: No. I want my privacy....

JA: You logged on to one of your own chat rooms and nobody would believe that it was you.

DD: That makes sense, right?

JA: Of course.

DD: It's true, a true story, but why would they believe that it's me? I'm sure people log on every day saying they're David Duchovny and spouting these outrageous things.

JA: You couldn't give them any information that would convince them. They would think you were just a really good faker.

DD: Making it up.

JA: How do I know you're David Duchovny?

DD: You don't.

JA: How do you know I'm Jodi Applegate?

DD: I don't care. [laughter in the background]

JA: Did you know who I was....I accept the look in your eyes which means no.

DD: I saw you last time I was here. You were with Katie and you were doing something. You were being....

JA: That convinces me.

DD: I saw you. You looked familiar. I didn't know your name.

JA: That's all right. We're pals now.

DD: It was...........Jodi

JA: Jane Pauley. Nice to meet you

DD: Nice to meet you too

DD: I used to catch your show in Phoenix all the time. [laughter in the background]

JA: Good. Nice to know. So you were secretly pulling the strings behind my superstardom.

DD: That's correct.

JA: Keep pulling because I'm not there yet.

DD: I will...keep pulling.

JA: Thank you very much.

DD: Thank you.