For your anon who was talking about Gillian only doing more X-Files for the money, do you remember that Grantland interview David did where he said, being honest, that part of the reason he was doing the show again was because of greed. I don’t think Gillian is worried about the money, I think she’s worried about how many episodes FOX want to do. Like you said, pretty much every job she takes involves a low-budget. Even with The Fall she would’ve made no more than 500K per series.

On David’s defense, he never said he did a new season because of greed. The exact quote from the interview is “

Apart from what he cheerfully describes as “pure greed,” this was part of why Duchovny thinks it’s worth another shot. “It was a great strength of the show,” he says. “The flexible frame. It could be comedy, it could be drama, it could be a thriller, it could be a horror movie, it could be a conspiracy movie, it could be a love story.” (x) And I think the “greed” part was actually referring to the original series. 

They both clearly made a nice amount of money with the revival. I don’t think it was their only motivation to do it, and I don’t think it’s their only motivation to do a season 11, but if it allows them to keep working on low-budget projects that they enjoy and care about, it’s a win-win situation for them and us as fans. They’re happy and rich, and we have more episodes. Let Fox give them all their money!