Stephen Hillenburg Quotes

I'd prefer not to tell confidential information about future products.

When you go to Marvel, they lock you in a room with the scripts; they really are that secretive.

For me, I felt bad for people asking the questions, cause you know their boss sent them out saying, 'Get me something on Mission Impossible.' And you ask the question, and it's just a polite, 'I'm not going to tell you.' Then, every so often, they'd go, 'Well, can't you just tell us a little bit?' I have to say, 'You know what guys, I'm under contract and I'm not going to tell you anything.' So you keep asking the questions and I'm just going to keep smiling. And it's hard, cause I don't want to seem rude, but it's part of my job just like it's part of their job to keep a secret.

I don't discuss works in progress.

Netflix is very protective with their information .

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside a family you have neither.

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.

Don't read my diary when I'm gone.

Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.

So this was how secrets got started, I thought to myself. People constructed them little by little.

A real secret is something which only one person knows.

Victoria's got her secrets. Hey, so do I!

I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.'

If you held a pistol at my head, I couldn't tell you who they're going to vote for Best Actor.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.

Silence never yet betrayed any one!

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

I am a producer who NEVER discusses her budgets, EVER, ever ever.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

I ran for president. I ran for governor twice. And I've been the governor now for nearly seven years. I find that the people who are my best advisors are the people who are smart enough to give me really good advice and smart enough to keep their mouths shut about what advice they give me. And so if I want advisors that way, that's the kind of advisor I'm going to be for Donald Trump.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

Hear, see, and be silent.

Secrecy was the problem; transparency the obvious cure.

Confidentiality is the essence of being trusted.