He's on a self-indulgent 'ego trip' with his latest movie, which he wrote, directed, and starred in himself.
Winning was good for our 'egos'. = Winning boosted our 'egos'. [=winning made us proud of ourselves]
a bruised 'ego' [=a feeling that you are not as important as you thought you were]
(..) You will be at the poker game, right? OK, we'll talk then. Yeah, yep. I'm tied up right now. Great. You can't believe last coupla weeks. Oh, Christ! Ben, it's all about ego! This whole town runs on ego. Yeah. Hi, I'm Bobby. Ben is my brother though, so its understandable. So what the hell... (..)2016 Café Society