Sentences with phrase «career as a taxi driver»

Driving the 2008 Mercury Sable around San Francisco, we considered painting it yellow, putting a light on top, and starting a career as a taxi driver.

And who knows this better than a driver who initially began his career as a taxi driver, and quickly worked his way up to providing driving services to a high - end Limousine services company?

Not exact matches

Schrader has said that he knows his obituaries will read, «Writer of Taxi Driver,» despite his own idiosyncratic career as a filmmaker.

Though the style is rigorously sedate, the plot plays out like an outrageous update of Schrader's classic Taxi Driver script for a world of LiveLeak and climate change, and Hawke gives one of the his finest performances of his career as a soft - spoken man consumed with depression and an «all - consuming knowledge of the emptiness of all things.»

Nightcrawler certainly borrows much of its themes and tone from previous movies such as Network, Taxi Driver, Peeping Tom, Drive, but Gilroy recycles those ideas and places them in a contemporary setting and allows us to examine one of society's more questionable career paths, while also taking a glimpse at our human nature in relation to crime and violence.

It continues the director's career - long grappling with his Calvinist beliefs, even as it becomes the latest iteration of a story he has told before, in movies like «American Gigolo» and «Hardcore» and his screenplay for «Taxi Driver.»

Release date: May 18 Cast: Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer Directed by: Paul Schrader (Auto Focus) Why we're excited: Paul Schrader is perhaps best known as screenwriter of Martin Scorsese classics like Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, but he's also had an equally compelling career as a director of his own hard - edged, morally complex films like Hardcore and Affliction.

Sean Fennessey sits down with legendary filmmaker Paul Schrader to discuss his powerful new film, First Reformed, starring Ethan Hawke; his patient style of filmmaking, and his major career achievements, such as cocreating Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, and The Last Temptation of Christ.

He did this, iconically, with his original screenplay for Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver and as a director himself in 2002's Auto Focus, an unsettling descent into porn and career dislocation.