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Adam Driver attended bus driver school for his role in the film. The production team was making arrangements for Driver to get a bus license, and while they were trying to organize it, he figured it out on his own and had already gone to the school.

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The conversation between two construction workers on the bus was a real conversation Jarmusch overheard in a bar.

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The original script did not mention twins. At a Q&A held at the Landmark Sunshine Cinema in New York, Jim Jarmusch revealed the coincidence of the twins in the film. At the start of shooting, when the mother and sister came to pick him up, he noticed that one of the extras in the bus scene was actually a twin. He told the mother to bring both sisters to the shoot the next day and began including the twins in the rest of the filming. He later added Laura's dialogue about her dream involving twins. According to him, the twins in the film (who also foreshadow the dog theft) are "anti-significant." One might think that at the end of the film it would be revealed that Laura is pregnant with twins or that Marvin would be stolen, but neither happens.

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The poem the little girl reads to Paterson was written by director Jim Jarmusch.

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On Paterson's (played by Adam Driver) bedside table is a photo of a younger Paterson taken during his military service. It is a real photo of Adam Driver from his time serving in the United States Marine Corps.

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On Empire podcast #237, Adam Driver stated that he trained and became a licensed bus driver. He wanted to be able to be on "auto pilot" while driving the bus. This also meant the film could include more authentic footage allowing for more varied camera shots. He trained in Queens, New York City over a three-month period and passed the test a week before filming began.

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The man rapping in the laundromat is played by Wu-Tang Clan member Method Man. In Jarmusch's film 'Ghost Dog' there is a cameo by RZA, also a member of Wu-Tang Clan, who also wrote the film's music. RZA also appears alongside the Clan's GZA in Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes.

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Jim Jarmusch had written a review for the film nearly 20 years earlier.

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Kara Hayward and Jared Gilman, who made their debuts in Wes Anderson's film Moonrise Kingdom (2012), appear in this film.

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Laura says she shares her name with Petrarch's wife (Petrarch was a 14th-century Italian scholar and poet). In fact, Laura was Petrarch's muse; she was never his wife and in fact had limited connection to him, if any.

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Laura mentions a dream in which she has twins. From this point on, and throughout the film, Paterson encounters twins on his way to work, at the bar and twice on the bus. The young poet is also seen to be a twin.

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Throughout the film, characters point out the coincidence that Paterson (Adam Driver) shares his name with the town he lives in (Paterson, New Jersey). Paterson, a bus driver, happens to be played by an actor whose name is "Driver."

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The film was shot in and around New Jersey Transit's Market Street bus garage in Paterson, but the transit agency did not allow any of its equipment to be used in the shoot, so Adam Driver's character drives a propeller bus painted in the original NJ Transit livery with a fake fleet number, 0936, that does not correspond to any real NJ Transit bus. The "23 Paterson" bus route is also fictional.

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On Laura's (Golshifteh Farahani) shirt while she plays the guitar is a poem written by the Iranian poet Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi.

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The children talking on the bus are the same actors who played the leads in Wes Anderson's "Moonrise Kingdom."

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In the end credits sequence, special thanks are mentioned to actress Tilda Swinton, who appeared in another Jim Jarmusch film.

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The ballpoint pen Paterson uses is the Skilcraft U.S. Government pen, produced by the National Institute of the Blind since 1968. This may be a salute to Driver's service in the United States Marine Corps. The pen has been trusted by sailors and other government agencies in all kinds of environments and has remained in service for decades. Its 16-page specification sheet includes some of the following key details: Performance: it must write a continuous line of at least 5,000 feet (about a mile) under 125 grams of pressure. Environmental Range: functional at extreme temperatures between \(-40^{\circ }\text{F}\) and \(160^{\circ }\text{F}\). Ink Quality: dries within 5 seconds, does not smear and averages no more than 15 drips per 1000 feet. Durability: withstands 48 hours of water immersion and two applications of bleach. Design: features a 94% tungsten carbide and 6% cobalt ball, an American-made brass ink cartridge and a design made to fit fully into military pockets. Reliability: the retractable mechanism has a 5-year shelf life and must work immediately after use.

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Chasten Harmon's debut.

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