A day doesn't go by when I don't get a compliment on L.A…

Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

— Suzanne Enoch

In terms of talking with my collaborators as they came onboard - Jeannine Oppewall, our production designer, Dante Spinotti, our cinematographer, and so forth…

— Curtis Hanson

On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on - and yet…

— Curtis Hanson

In L.A. Confidential, it was great to surprise the audience with Guy Pearce and Russell Crowe - two Australian actors that they didn't know…

— Curtis Hanson

Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so…

— Curtis Hanson

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

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

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

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

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

— Stanley Walker

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

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

— Sun Tzu

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

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

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