'Kitchen Confidential' wasn't a cautionary or an expose. I…

There was or is always someone somewhere to say the same thing that somebody thought at some time that no one would speak out…

— Anuj Somany

What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, like L.A. Confidential, and say,…

— Ted Demme

What happens when I'm dealing with the problems in North Korea and the Middle East? Are you folks going to be reporting all that…

— Donald Trump

Of all rewards none [is] more liberal than those given to secret agents.

— Sun Tzu

Working on an adaptation is not as satisfying, because it's not your original work: you're interpreting. With 'L.A. Confidential,' I loved the book. In…

— Brian Helgeland

He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

— Stanley Walker

There are, in the King case in particular, e names of confidential informants, persons to whom we promised confidentiality in return for their testimony.…

— Louis Stokes

You do not walk into any hearing or committee meeting and reveal confidential communications with the president of the United States, who's entitled to…

— Jeff Sessions

The Enemy, who wears her mother's usual face and confidential tone, has access; doubtless stares into her writing case and listens on the phone.

— Phyllis McGinley

Brilliant. . . . Marriage Confidential is both laugh-out-loud funny and gasp-out-loud shocking, and nothing less than a Feminine Mystique for our time. Mark…

— Debby Applegate

Today's biggest headlines are stories about people who thought they were doing something that was secret: Jesse Jackson's secret girlfriend and child, Monica Lewinski's…

— Ted Haggard

“Entirely confidential, check,” Bob said. “And it would take a lot more than one night working with you to build up enough momentum to…

— Jim Butcher

... for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste…

— Michael Grunwald

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on…

— Anthony Bourdain

I don't really write with living actors in mind. I guess I write for dead actors. I'll think of like, you know, Burt Lancaster…

— Brian Helgeland