The meeting came suddenly. His agent called our casting mistress – having heard I was in town, doing the rounds – and said that David wanted to meet. Not necessarily to be in the movie, as he was doing an Ivan Reitman flick during the time we were to be shooting Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. He just wanted to meet for the hell of it. They also sent over the episode of the Files he’d directed last season called “Hollywood A.D.”, so that I could familiarize myself with his directorial efforts. It was unnecessary, as I’d not only already seen that episode when it aired (in fact, I’d watched it with great interest, due to the fact that an article in Entertainment Weekly made it sound like there were some minor plot similarities to what I was doing in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), but also his directorial debut on the show the year before (the great baseball episode with Jesse Martin; he of Law & Order fame). I’m up – way up – on the Duchovny oeuvre.