Ethan Coen compared Burn After Reading to the Allen Drury political novel Advise and Consent and called it "our version of a Tony Scott/Jason Bourne kind of movie, without the explosions."
Ethan Coen je usporedio film s političkim romanom Advise and Consent te ga nazvao "našom verzijom neke vrste Tony Scott/Jason Bourne filma, samo bez eksplozija."