Sentence examples for ambition to direct from inspiring English sources

Unwin is making it his life's ambition to direct 12 seminal Ibsen plays.

The trip fired her ambition to direct what many consider to be Williams's finest work.

I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play.

He is to direct Hamlet in Japan, Katya Kabanova in Santa Fe - fulfilling a long-nursed ambition to direct opera - and hopes to put on 'a play in Paris with a leading French actress'.

Best of times: Though he considers himself a pessimist, Christopher Nolan's rise to the top of his game has been seamless, with Batman Begins fulfilling his childhood ambition to direct a blockbuster.

He fulfilled an ambition to direct films with his hit British comedy The Tall Guy, scripted by Richard Curtis and starring Jeff Goldblum and Emma Thompson.

He has inevitable ambitions to direct: "I would like to be watching people more talented than me play a scene and not have to sully it with my own lack of talent," he says, not entirely modestly.

But Hollywood had other ideas for him and so began years of trade-offs: he would provide special effects for such films as The Andromeda Strain, Close Encounters, Blade Runner and Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but only so he could finance his plans to raise the state of the art and, also, further his ambitions to direct.

9. Aisha has ambitions to direct.

"Ten or so years ago, I just removed all the calculus from it and said, 'I'm just going by director,'" said the actor, who himself harbors ambitions to direct.

ACTORS often wait to become household names before announcing that their true ambition is to direct.