Trivia

Founder member of "the Sons of Lee Marvin". Other members include Tom Waits, Thurston Moore, John Lurie, Nick Cave. Membership requires a plausible likeness to Lee Marvin such that you could be rumored to be his son.

Doesn't allow his movies to be dubbed for foreign movie markets. They are mostly shown with subtitles in other countries. His only films that were dubbed are Down by Law - Sous le coup de la loi (1986) which was dubbed in French and The Dead Don't Die (2019) which was dubbed in French and Spanish.

At college one of his professors was cult director Nicholas Ray. They formed a friendship and Jarmusch became his assistant for the making of a film.

Up until 2005, has never made a film under a studio's watch.

Once almost died from eating wild mushrooms, which resulted in an interest in the study of mushroom.

He owns the negatives to all his own films, except one, Year of the Horse (1997), which he made for Neil Young.

Likes seeing his films once, with a paying audience that doesn't know he is there, after that he doesn't want to see them ever again.

According to Roger Ebert, 'there is a deep embedding of comedy, nostalgia, shabby sadness and visual beauty' in his work.

Stopped drinking coffee in 1986, the year of the first installment of Coffee and Cigarettes, though he continues to smoke cigarettes.

He has directed one film that has been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Stranger Than Paradise (1984).

Good friend of Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director of L'homme sans passé (2002). Placed the final segment of his movie Night on Earth (1991) in Finland with the three characters speaking Finnish.

Chris Parker, who starred in Jarmusch's first film Permanent Vacation (1980) was a friend of Jarmusch's and had never acted before (according to a 2/2/94 interview with Jarmusch). When Jarmusch submitted "Permanent Vacation" to Tisch as his film thesis/project, they wouldn't accept it - apparently, they didn't think it was worth their time.

Has lived with his girlfriend, filmmaker Sara Driver, for 20 years. [2005]

Although Broken Flowers (2005) came out after Lost in Translation (2003), Jarmusch wrote the script exclusively for Bill Murray before Sofia Coppola.

Father worked at the Goodrich tire plant in Akron, Ohio. Mother reviewed films for the Akron Beacon Journal.

Stated that his goal was "to approximate real time for the audience.".

Often described as the archetypal auteur of American independent film.

Is a member of rock band SQÜRL with film associate Carter Logan and sound engineer Shane Stoneback.

Guest with Johnny Depp of Belgrade Film Festival FEST in 1992.

Attended Columbia University.

Is a founding member of The Sons of Lee Marvin, a humorous "semi-secret society" of artists resembling the iconic actor.

He doesn't have a personal e-mail account.

Novelist Paul Auster described the characters in Jarmusch's films as "laconic, withdrawn, sorrowful mumblers".

Is the older brother of Ann and Tom Jarmusch.

On Feb. 2, 1994, Jarmusch appeared for an interview before an audience on the first night of a retrospective of his films held by the Walker Art Museum in Minneapolis, MN.

Listed L'Atalante (1934), Voyage à Tokyo (1953), Les Amants de la nuit (1948), Bob le flambeur (1956), L'aurore (1927), Le caméraman (1928), Mouchette (1967), Les 7 Samouraïs (1954), Le lys brisé (1919) and Rome, ville ouverte (1945) as the 10 Greatest Films of All Time in the 2002 Sight & Sound Directors' Poll.