Johnathan Frakes
Johnathan Frakes
Jonathan Scott Frakesis an American actor, author, and director. Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films. Frakes also hosted the television series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, challenging viewers to discern his stories of fact-based phenomena and fabricated tales. In June 2011, Frakes narrated the History Channel documentary Lee and Grant. He was also the voice actor of David Xanatos in the Disney...
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I must say I was thrilled that that happened for Roswell; that was kind of a treat.
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Not that a B.F.A. in theater arts has been the most useful degree one could ever acquire.
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No, though I had done some plays as a kid, because it was fun. But I hadn't considered it as a profession.
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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.
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I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what's in the budget.
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No, I was a psychology major in college.
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It took me a long time to get off the Enterprise, but I finally did.
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To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I always was - and still am - somehow able to use the amount of money that we have to make the project.
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I have a lot of kid in me, and I have kids of my own and I like the energy.