Sentences with phrase «aspirations as a filmmaker»

Refn clearly has a love for the likes of Walter Hill and John Carpenter, as well as cult classics like Silent Running and Logan's Run, a film he was looking to remake for some time; von Trier has grander aspirations as a filmmaker, a compulsive need to make the audience feel something, anything, at the end of his works.

It's been three years since director Todd Phillips released the critically derided final installment in his «Hangover» trilogy, and in that time, his aspirations as a filmmaker have clearly grown.

At the time, he was appearing in performance pieces and art films and nursing his own aspirations as a filmmaker.

Not exact matches

His early aspiration was to be a writer, but as he told Matt Zoller Seitz in his book of interviews with and essays on the director, The Wes Anderson Collection, he was drawn to film when he started reading books by and about filmmakers as a student at the University of Texas, where he met his frequent collaborator Owen Wilson in a playwriting class.

And it isn't that I have aspirations of becoming a filmmaker, it's just that I want to be as good at something as Tarantino is at making movies.