work on The X-Files and The Lone Gunmen, but now he's mentioned as one of these great TV auteurs. Can you talk a little bit about your working relationship with him? BC: It's been beautiful. I've been very fortunate. And I don't hesitate to mention how this all came about. In fact I think it's my duty as an older guy to mentor young actors and tell them the main component necessary in order to have a successful career in the arts, and that is talent. If you don't feel you have talent, stop now, go back home and get into the family business. And even if you have talent and perseverance and patience, there's still one more component left without which you won't be successful, and that's luck. You have to have luck. And I have luck. I've had my lucky breaks. I was doing a movie that I wrote and directed, and I just took a flyer, put all my money into it, and my wife and I made this little movie, and we postponed it three or four times. I came back finishing it and I was in town for three days, and my agent called me and said: "There's a role on X-Files: would you be interested?" And I said "Yeah, I'm broke. I need the money!" I got it, and it was written by Vince Gilligan. That's where I met him. Had I not been available I wouldn't be sitting in this chair right now.