The X Files: I Want to Believe

The X-Files: I Want to Believe is a 2008 American supernatural fiction-thriller film directed by Chris Carter and written by both Carter and Frank Spotnitz. It is the second feature film based on The X-Files franchise created by Carter, following the 1998 film. Believe Again. (taglines)

Fox Mulder

 * I'm as happy as a clam.

Dana Scully

 * No. No, I can't ask you to do that... But I can tell you I won't be coming home tonight.
 * As far away from the darkness as we can get?
 * This stubbornness of yours, it's why I fell in love with you.
 * Thanks, but I've already been taken for a ride. Besides, he doesn't want me there.
 * This isn't my life anymore, Mulder. I'm done chasing monsters in the dark.

Dialogue

 * Mulder: Are you asking me to give up?
 * Scully: No. No, I can't ask you to do that... But I can tell you I won't be coming home tonight.


 * Mulder: Don't give up.
 * Scully: Please don't make this any harder than it already is.
 * Mulder: If you have any doubts, [wraps his arms around Scully] any doubts at all, call off that surgery and then we'll get out of here... Just me and you.
 * Scully: As far away from the darkness as we can get?
 * Mulder: I'm not sure it works that way. I think maybe the darkness finds you and me.
 * Scully: I know it does.
 * Mulder: Let it try.
 * Scully: This isn't my life anymore, Mulder. I'm done chasing monsters in the dark.


 * Scully: Listen to me! I need your help!
 * Agent Drummy: I'm sorry. I - I can't help you.
 * Scully: Then let me talk to somebody there with some balls who can.

Taglines

 * Believe Again.
 * To find the truth, you must believe.
 * To understand the truth, you have to believe.

Cast

 * David Duchovny - Fox Mulder
 * Gillian Anderson - Dr. Dana Scully
 * Amanda Peet - Special Agent in Charge Dakota Whitney
 * Billy Connolly - Joseph "Father Joe" Crissman
 * Alvin "Xzibit" Joiner - Special Agent Mosley Drummy
 * Mitch Pileggi - Assistant Director Walter Skinner
 * Callum Keith Rennie - Janke Dacyshyn
 * Adam Godley - Father Ybarra
 * Xantha Radley - Special Agent Monica Bannan
 * Fagin Woodcock - Franz Tomczeszyn
 * Nicki Aycox - Cheryl Cunningham
 * Alex Diakun as Gaunt Man