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.

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.

Is the older brother of Ann and Tom Jarmusch.

Attended Columbia University.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doesn't allow his movies to be dubbed for foreign movie markets. They are mostly shown with subtitles in other countries.

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.

Good friend of Aki Kaurismäki, Finnish director of Mies vailla menneisyyttä (2002). Placed the final segment of his movie Night on Earth (1991) in Finland with the three characters speaking Finnish.