List copied from MUBI. Thanks to Santiago Lago O/Talk Talk for collecting their thoughts on films that inspired their vision. These are all gather from various interviews and tweets praising the film one way or another. I'm sure Benny and Josh appreciate the effort put into this list, if they aware of this site. Enjoy!

*They only mentioned Life Lessons from the anthology New York Stories (1989)
*One Night in Paris is not in the database.

FAVORITE SHOWS
- Seinfield
- Taxi
- The Wire
- The Sopranos
- Ugly George
- Midnight Blue
- The Outer Limits
- Cops
- OZ
- Candid Camera
- Entourage

FAVORITE BOOKS
- Trainspotting – Irving Welsh
- Porno – Irving Welsh
- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz – Mordecai Richler
- Notes on the Cinematographer – Robert Bresson
- Scorsese on Scorsese – David Thompson
- Cassavetes on Cassavetes – Ray Carney
- The Films of Mike Leigh – Ray Carney
- Making Movies – Sidney Lumet
- The Money Player: The Confessions of America’s Greatest Table Tennis Champion and Hustler – Marty Reisman
- Helter Skelter – Vincent Bugliosi
- The Family – Ed Sanders
- Will You Die for Me? – Tex Watson
- Dead Souls – Nikolai Gogol
- What Makes Sammy Run? – Budd Schulberg
- SuperBookie: Inside Las Vegas Sports Gambling – Art Manteris, Rick Talley
- Confessions of an Ivy League Bookie – Peter Alson
- Tales of Times Square – Josh Alan Friedman
- I, Goldstein – Josh Alan Friedman
- It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs – Rodney Dangerfield
- Money Players : Inside the NBA – Amen Keteyian
- The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
- In the Belly of the Beast – Jack Henry Abbott
- The Executioner’s Song – Norman Mailer
- I Slept with Joey Ramone: A Family Memoir – Mickey Leigh
- Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones – Dee Dee Ramone
- Commando – Johnny Ramone
- If Beale Street Could Talk – James Baldwin
- No Beast So Fierce – Edward Bunker
- Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
- Andy Kaufman Revealed! Best Friend Tells All – Bob Zmuda
- Slaughterhouse-Five – Kurt Vonnegut

AUTHORS MENTIONED
- Walter Mosley
- Charles Willeford
- Elmore Leonard
- Richard Stark
- John Cheever
- William Burroughs

FAVORITE GRAPHIC NOVELS AND COMICS
- David Boring – Daniel Clowes
- Angry Youth Comix – Johnny Ryan
- Peep Show – Joe Matt
- Dirty Plotte – Julie Doucet