Simon Cowell Quotes

Truthfully, I'm proud of each of my films in a certain way.

The gratification comes, for me, in the doing of it. And once I've done it, I can't do anything about it if it's good or if it's bad.

I'm really proud of 'Moneyball.' To me, it's about feeling pride in a movie I made. I think when I'm an old man I'll be able to show it to my grandkids with pride. That's all I can really go for: making movies to please me.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

When you hold something you created, drew, and conceived, and now here it is in 3D plastic - it is a rush.

Pretty much every record I've ever done, I can go back and listen to them and be proud. I'm proud of everything I've done.

Success, to me, is just doing things that I'm really proud of.

I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.

I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.

You just get satisfaction from achieving something that you just don't get in any other way than from being creative.

If you do a scene the right way, you can go home at the end of the day and really feel like you accomplished something.

I did as well as I knew how and have nothing to be ashamed of.

It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music.

I love all of my books. They were labors of love; I was striving to create something well done, and I do feel I succeeded.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

I still get enormous pleasure and a sense of fulfillment out of writing a book that I'm proud of. I see myself as a bit like a jewel-maker who can sit back and admire his work.

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

I'm stupidly proud of myself.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

There is only one real happiness in life, and that is the happiness of creating.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Writing, producing and directing, I must say, is incredibly satisfying and gratifying.

Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.

The work itself is what motivates me. I like my own stuff, you know? I like the way it looks. I do it to please myself first.