Steven Soderbergh cast his ex-wife, Betsy Brantley, to play his character's wife. Their two characters were a husband and wife who had drifted apart and could not communicate.
The character being laid to rest at the funeral is named Lester Richards. This is a nod from Steven Soderbergh to Richard Lester, one of the main influences on the film.
Steven Soderbergh started this project with no script. Lines were written before every scene and he also allowed some improvisation.
Was released without beginning or end credits, except for a single frame of copyright information at the end of the film.
Soderbergh is clearly a big fan of the Austrian Dadaist Kurt Schwitters. Aside from naming the film's cult founder after him, the promo photo with nine frames of Soderbergh's character face-pulling in the bathroom mirror obviously references a photo sequence of Kurt Schwitters performing his tone poems, such as Ursonate (the image is easily found on the web).
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