In a 2010 interview with the New York Times, Jeff Bridges said that Mike White's performance as Buck in this movie was the best acting performance of the 2000s.
Appeared on Entertainment Weekly's list of The 50 Best Movies You've Never Seen in the Jul 16, 2012 issue.
When Chuck turns to the TV in his office and claims to have signed the band whose video is playing, the TV is showing They Might Be Giants performing their song "Dr. Worm".
In a 2000 interview with IndieWire, Miguel Arteta spoke about the DV cameras used and why he didn't focus too much on the technology: "I think it was the VX-1000 and we used two of them. I tried to find out as little as possible about DV. I let the cinematographer and the producer deal with it; and I try to remove myself from the technical aspects. I'm going to treat this as a story we're telling with images, I don't even want to know what camera we're using. Part of the drive to use DV was to have technology play less of a part in the making of the movie. I wanted the emphasis to be on the performances, character and story. And it was great to have these 5-pound plastic things on the set that no one took seriously because it did put the emphasis on the performances."
Chris Weitz, who plays Chuck/Charlie, and Paul Weitz, who plays Sam/the character who represents Chuck in Buck's play, are brothers in real life.