Johnathan Frakes Quotations

When I was just acting on the show, I learned my lines, went to sleep, then woke up and went to work. Now it's sort of become an obsession. I like the success. I'm thrilled with the way things have gone-but my life was simpler 10 years ago.

I always was - and still am - somehow able to use the amount of money that we have to make the project.

I have a lot of kid in me, and I have kids of my own and I like the energy.

If it was a guest part, you'd only go in once and read for the producer and director, and you'd know the next day if you were going in to work.

When I produced Roswell, it was clear to me that my value to that show was as a director, because I was not a writer, and I wasn't a line producer.

I allow actors to take chances, and I think levity is valuable, and especially peppered properly in a story like this.

I think in general, you need a bad guy to have someone to root against and I think kids understand a story more clearly if there's an evil element for them to cheer against and to root for the good guys.

I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.

I think by the end of the first season it was pretty clear that the numbers, if you will, were greater than the projected numbers, and that we were going to be around for awhile.

Ironically, I had virtually no interest in science fiction.

Our strong teen-girl demographic attracts a lot of the boys as well, so I suspect that they'll let us continue to create the show with a style that has already gotten us into the third season anyway.

Outside of that, the concept of the show has been to explore our aliens' background.

It evolved, in all honesty, into a show much more about the mythology of the aliens than about the angst about teen romance.

I wasn't surprised, because I know that there's been that kind of loyalty about Star Trek, historically, certainly in the original seasons; the original series was picked up partially because of fan support.

I was a psych major until I saw how much fun the actors were having, and I decided I'd transfer over to the theater arts department.

While we were on the WB we were certainly not the number one show.

But nothing really felt like it was going to take off the way that Star Trek did, before that.

To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.

Very key to a good episode is to have something not work, and have our brilliant science team somehow fix it magically in the fifth act.

I sort of made a deal with myself that if I was going to spend a year on a project, I wanted my kids to see it at the end so they know where Dad has been.

So, the premise of the show, that there were in fact aliens from Roswell who had infiltrated the public, I thought was very intriguing and very sellable.

As an executive producer who's not a writer, my responsibilities are obviously to hire the best people for the jobs and to contribute notes to the scripts and then to the cuts as the shows come in.

It's a real Star Trek script. It feels like real sci-fi.

It's pretty evident even when you're a guest actor on a show - you know where the power is.

Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.

No, I was a psychology major in college.

It took me a long time to get off the Enterprise, but I finally did.

No, though I had done some plays as a kid, because it was fun. But I hadn't considered it as a profession.

I'm proud of the show on a lot of levels, but the idea that people are inspired to study anything is good news to me.

I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what's in the budget.

I must say I was thrilled that that happened for Roswell; that was kind of a treat.

In the theater, we were sort of happy to do what we could get.

I get an inordinate amount of, diplomatically, let's say odd, mail and scripts and treatments and story ideas and theories and theorems.

I didn't know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.

I don't think there's any reason to be an actor unless you feel deep in your soul that you have to be, because it's not a career that one can count on working in or making a living at.

The last script was so wonderful and the story was so exciting. The film itself did so well and, frankly, it made so much money-it kind of reinvigorated the whole franchise.