Salesman

“Salesman, one of the greatest documentaries of the working man and the patois of the period and all that. I suggest very wholeheartedly that you have a bottle of booze, some ice, and you do a double program of this and Glengarry Glen Ross.”

“I'm going to grab a couple of documentaries... The first one is a Maysles' documentary called Salesman that I watched on the advice of Mike Nichols. We did a play called Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller and this was one of the things that Mike said that we must watch just to develop our souls as well as prepare us to make that play. Again, the kind of the failure of capitalism that we're currently living at the end of, hopefully.”

“Salesman. One of the best documentaries ever made. I mean, I can't believe how they managed to do that. And he's like the greatest actor that ever lived. He's so moving. This documentary is so moving. I mean, you couldn't have put it together if you worked on it for years. It's unbelievable.”

“Salesman. These are two fantastic films, both of which we used as inspiration for a show I created with Fred Armisen and Bill Hader called Documentary Now! I wrote both of these, I had to watch them so many times to see if there was stuff I could find as inspiration. Also, a little bit of bonus, the Doc Now! Episode about Salesman, called Globesman, Globesman is available on this.”