Johnathan Frakes Quotes (24 Quotes)

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.

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

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.

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'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 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.

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

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.

No, I was a psychology major in college.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.