OnlineHost: Welcome to AOL Live David Duchovny!

DavidDLive: Thank you.
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Question: What project or movie are you working on now?

DavidDLive: I'm just finishing the X-Files season. We're in the middle of episode
20 out of 22. I should be finished around May 9th. And I ahve nothing planned after that. But I'm reading scripts and thinking about what I want to do with the rest of my life.
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Question: What is the best way for your fans to reach you? Do you have a
website?

DavidDLive: Is it possible for me to have a website without knowing it?
I'm not aware of having a website... I don't control one, if that's the word
I guess at this point, the best way is to get in touch with FOX publicity through the
X-Files, at least up through May 9th.
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Question: Are you and Tea going to be working together soon aside from the XF ep
"Hollywood Ad"?

DavidDLive: No plans to. But I'm a big fan of hers, and I would love to work with her
if we found something that we thought wa right./
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Question: Did the movie make you think about your own relationships or make
you see them in a new light?

DavidDLive: Not really...I think watching the movie as an experience makes you treasure what you have in the present in your friends and love ones that are near you now but the practice of acting or movie making is much different than enjoying a movie by watching it. So rather thanmeditate the human condition, I would just apply myself to individual scenes. The new movie is a weird genetic hybrid I guess it could be an X-Files plot, about a guy who loses his wife very much in love with her and a woman accross town who needs a heart and gets this man's dead wife's heart in a transplant and these
to meet a few years later and fall in love and it's not a big surprise...you know what happens as soon as my character's wife dies. The joy and the saddness in this movie is watching this unfold. With allt he wit and sharpness that Bonnie Hunt brings to her acting she brought to her directing and her writing and it's really an ensemble piece and you really have great actors in like Carol O'Connor and Minnie Driver, who is a great actress. And it's a movie that's very hard to describe because it's alternately a simple, fairtail type movie, but also very real and extremely funny.
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Question: You and Minnie have phenominal onscreen chemistry in this film (almost
as good as Gillian and yourself).. Was it easy to create, or did you guys have to work on it a bit?

DavidDLive: It was very easy for me to work with Minnie. Chemistry...whtever it is, is really the actor's responsibility if it's called for...you're getting paid to create it. But between Minnie and I, it was very easy and we just enjoyed each other's company and each other's acting...and there was a lot of trust. So I got lucky with the chemistry thing.
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Question: I saw Return to Me and absolutely loved it! What made you realize that
Question: this was a movie you should do?
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Question: I saw Return to Me and absolutely loved it! What made you realize that
Question: this was a movie you should do?

DavidDLive: I'd known Bonnie since we did Beethoven in 1991, and when I heard she had written a script she was going to direct I immediately wanted to take a look at it.
And I rad this very straight forward, sentimental type love story which I thought was a very pretty script, and then I thought about Bonnie directing it, and Bonnie is someone who has a very funny and sharp take on just about everything. And I thought if you combine the simpleness and the sweetness of the story and the intelligence and sharpness of Bonnie that you'd have a really great movie. And an original one. And that's exactly what it is. I was right for once.
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Hey, David! I've seen the movie at the sneak peaks, and just loved it. It seemed like a throw-back to the 40s idea of a romance movie. I'm from Chicago, so I'd love to know - what was your favorite part about filming there? Shell : )

DavidDLive: I'd never been to Chicago, and part of this movie I think is ctually like a love letter to Chicago from Bonnie. She tried to share her love of the city with all of us who had never been there or didn't know it. And that is some of my fondest memories of
making the movie, was being introduced to the city. I had a wonderful time there, and just regret that I had never gone there before and spent a godd chunk of time there.
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Question: David, what do you think about singer Bree Sharp's hysterical, and
highly reverent, tribute to you, "David Duchovny"? Best of luck with everything.

DavidDLive: I think it's funny. Maybe the lyrics could be rewritten. I didn't know I was so
rhymable.
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Question: You have a really good sense of humor, has it been hard keeping it in
check for the most part doing the X-Files?

DavidDLive: Any part that you play exaggerates certain qualities and downplays
others. There's a lot I love in Mulder but playing any character for 7 years is going to be limiting no matter who or what it is. So, I feel in touch with my sense of humor through Mulder most of the time. There are jsut other things as well that I'd like to give free reign to through other characters.
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Question: David, do you think you will ever get around to finishing your Master's degree?

DavidDLive: I doubt it mom. Glad to see you're using that computer I got you. I wish...there's just not enough time in the dimension I'm living in.
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Question: What does Tea think of your seemingly increasing "Hollywood hunk
status"? Thanks!

DavidDLive: She just wants me to do the work that I enjoy. She's waiting for me to get old. She wants me older. Which is very comforting to me. I'll be there soon.
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Question: What do you like to do in your spare time?

DavidDLive: Hang out with my wife and child and dogs. Yoga. Read, write, but not 'rithmatic.
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Question: Considering your interest in being a playwrite, do you have any intention on writing, directing or starring in your own series or major motion picture? If so, any ideas on what you would write about?

DavidDLive: I do have an interest in writing and directing that grows daily. I probably have less interest in creating a series. Just because I've been involved in one for so long.

I know the pitfalls of that kind of repetition. I would think that within the next three or four years, I'll try and write and direct, if not a "major" motion picture then some kind of "minor" motion picture. I have no idea what that would be about. If you have any ideas let me know!

AOLiveMC20: The time has really slipped by, we have time for one final question:

Question: Do you feel that comedies are harder to do as opposed to dramas?

DavidDLive: I think there are many different factors that go into making one film harder or easier than another. I think finding the tone of a movie or a performance is probably the most important thing whether that's dramatic or comedic. And discovering the right tone or chosing the right tone is really the hardest thing to do. And fullfilling that tone with the other actors and the directors, and trusting everyone to be on the same page about that, so that you're all making the same movie in stead of separate little movies together. But as far as the work there is no separate degree of difficulty between comedy and drama, I don't think.

AOLiveMC20: Many thanks for being with us and taking our questions, David Duchovny.

DavidDLive: You're welcome and thanks for posing such intelligent questions. And enjoy the movie!