I try, in my life, to follow my heart. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying. A large aspect of life in Hollywood, in a stereotypic way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying. And I choose, albeit frustratingly to other people in my life, not to expose myself too much to too much of that.

Hal Boedeker (January 21, 2006) "Agent of Change - Gillian Anderson, who found fulfilling work in England after The X-Files,' returns to TV in a PBS miniseries", The Orlando Sentinel, p. E1.