Trivia

Contrary to belief, the dialogue was not entirely improvised nor ad-libbed. Lena Dunham said the script was written specifically for amateur actors.

Lena Dunham used her parents' money to make the film. She didn't have enough to pay anyone, so she ended up asking her friends and family to be part of it and it worked.

Dunham says the cost of making this film was only $65,000.

Aura's mother and sister are played by Lena Dunham's real-life mother and sister, Laurie Simmons and Cyrus Grace Dunham.

Lena Dunham and Nora Ephron were fans of each other's work, and Ephron's half-hour-long interview with Dunham is featured on the DVD version of this film. In it, Dunham explains how especially influenced she was by Ephron's own autobiographical movies, El difícil arte de amar (1986) and This Is My Life (1992).