Alan Parker Quotes

With some things, it's not that I like doing them; it's more that I like having done them. I like to look back and see that I've made a nice thing.

Once you have heard a strange audience burst into laughter at a film you directed, you realize what the word joy is all about.

Leaving a lot of movie sets, I've gone home and said, 'How come my hands are clean?' I should finish something and go home with dirt in my fingernails, because then you really feel that you've done something.

When I stand in that ring after a match, I feel like the strongest me! It's truly the greatest feeling.

Seeing my book on a billboard in New York was a bucket-list-type thing, but also a deeply surreal moment. I had to keep reminding myself that, oh, yes, I wrote that book.

Yeah, I made it. It sneaks up on you. You're some schmuck and you wake up one day and you go, Good God, I'm the cheese.

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

Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.

Being an agent gave me a great sense of satisfaction.

I feel good about the work I do on Survivor and am proud of my contribution.

I feel fulfilled when we've revealed a person.

And the whole Oscar thing, that is just surreal: you spend months and months doing promotion, and then come back to reality with this golden thing in your hands. You put it in the office and then you just have to look at it sitting on the shelf. And, after about two weeks, you go: 'What is that doing there?'

I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'

The satisfaction comes because you work hard and it pays off. It is not as glamorous as I thought it would be, but, you know, I appreciate it more than I ever knew I would, and I love it more than I ever knew I would.

It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.

If you're proud of something, and if you're proud of your work at the end of the day, the experience, walking away, you can feel good about it; that's what you have to focus on.

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.

It's crazy to call myself as the sexiest woman. I'm like, wow; this is cool. Looking at the past years, I was expecting 5th or 6th position. But standing on the 3rd position was totally unexpected.

I do have to pinch myself at times when I look back at some of the things I have achieved. I really do.

There is nothing to regret with a job well done.

When they announce who I am and what I've achieved, I still pinch myself to make sure I'm not dreaming.

The feeling after the first title was shock. But both feel incredible.

My true satisfaction came when my parents told me that someone had seen me on TV and congratulated them.

The emotional power of creating something... Nothing gives me as much joy as that.

After I've sat back and looked at my body of work, thought about it, I go, 'Wow, I guess I am a Hall of Famer.'