In all, he has written more than 100 concert works, often taking time out of his film schedule to focus on what he calls "the highest ideals of composition"; but still, he says, only 5% of his output is music that he aspires to write.
Like many pro actors, though, he aspires to write his own stuff, too; the cop has already written a treatment for a TV series, loosely based on a plainclothes detail he worked tracking down "violent suspects".
He also aspired to write children's books.
He, too, had aspired to write revelatory stories about the inner workings of the I.S.I.
Raised in Brooklyn by Irish immigrant parents, Deacy was jobless but aspired to write, and he would go on to become a journalist and political spokesman.
China's Chairman Mao aspired to write out his own mediocre poems in a jagged script.
A database administrator for Marsh & McLennan, Mr. Horning, 26, aspired to write a fantasy novel or a comic book.
Mish Way, the leader of a barbed indie band called White Lung, wrote that "Cerulean Salt" was "the record my sixteen-year-old self would have aspired to write".
From the age of 16, Nadar was essentially on his own; instead of family, he had friends, a network of bohemians who lived in garrets, assembled in cafes, and wrote or painted – or at least aspired to write or paint.
When the work had its premiere at the Indiana University Opera Theater in 2006, Anne Midgette wrote that Mr. Rorem and his librettist, J. D. McClatchy, "seem to have aspired to write an opera people would like, and they may have succeeded".
