David Duchovny suffered an eye injury while playing a pick-up game of basketball when he was 27. He was poked in the eye, and the force of the blow ruptured an eye muscle and caused a cataract to develop. As a result, he had to have the lens removed from his right eye and replaced with a synthetic one. He had to stay awake for the surgery and actually remembers the doctors talking to each other as if they'd never performed that kind of surgery before. He says, "It was like, Well, look at that. 'What do you normally do with that?' I don't know, I like to tie it in a knot or tie it in a bow or whatever. I was half awake, but I was so happy on the Demorol, I said, 'I thought you guys did this before.' I thought it was the funniest thing that they were operating on me. They'd never done it."