45 ordspråk av Johnathan Frakes
Johnathan Frakes
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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But nothing really felt like it was going to take off the way that Star Trek did, before that.
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Don't get me wrong, I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.
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I allow actors to take chances, and I think levity is valuable, and especially peppered properly in a story like this.
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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 didn't know anything about the original Star Trek outside of the fact that it was a cultural phenomenon.
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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.
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I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.
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I get an inordinate amount of, diplomatically, let's say odd, mail and scripts and treatments and story ideas and theories and theorems.
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I have a lot of kid in me, and I have kids of my own and I like the energy.
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I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.
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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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I never felt very cavalier about over-spending what's in the budget.
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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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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.
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