Who are David Mamet’s favorite filmmakers?

On the Criterion edition of Homicide (1991), there is a commentary track with writer/director David Mamet and actor William H. Macy. Among many topics in this conversation, recorded in 2009, they discuss some of the filmmakers who have influenced Mamet:

Mamet: I've always loved film noir. I always thought The Killing by Stanley Kubrick was one of the greatest films. So I love Kubrick's films and, um, Powell & Pressburger, the Brits. And Kurosawa, Ozu and Jean Renoir. John Ford, I always loved John Ford.

Macy: I love John Ford movies.

Mamet: Spectacular. William Wellman and Preston Sturges. I mean there--

Macy: Sidney Lumet, you mention him a lot.

Mamet: Sidney, I love Sidney. I made a movie with Sidney, The Verdict. You start going through the films that Sidney did, one after the other -- Dog Day Afternoon, Serpico and The Prince of the City, and The Anderson Tapes and The Hill. Twelve Angry Men. Just one after another.

Earlier in the commentary Mamet revealed that he had wanted Lumet to play a role in the film of an old Yiddish freedom fighter. (Schedules didn't work out.)

Both Mamet and Lumet have written books on directing. You can read my review of Lumet's Making Movies here.