| Filmed Clerks in three weeks for only $27,575; raised part of the budget by selling his extensive comic-book collection; also saved money by hiring friends and local actors. |
| Named daughter Harley Quinn after The Joker's girlfriend in the Batman comic books. |
| Dropped out of The New School for Social Research after one year and only attended the Vancouver Film School for four months. |
| A huge Star Wars fan, he married his wife at George Lucas's Skywalker Ranch. |
| Worked at a convenience store in Leonardo, NJ, which provided fodder for his breakthrough 1994 movie, Clerks. |