Wissenswertes

Richard Kelly consciously sought out actors that he felt had been pigeonholed and wanted to showcase their "undiscovered talents."

The first film for Dwayne Johnson to drop "The Rock" in his billing.

As of 2013, Richard Kelly still considers this his proudest accomplishment, calling it his "misunderstood child"

In a 2011 interview, Justin Timberlake himself confessed, "To me, Southland Tales is performance art. I still don't know what that movie is about [laughs]."

The police cruisers in the film have a Latin quote "oderint dum metuant" inscribed on them. It was a famous saying of Roman emperor Caligula: "Let them hate so long as they fear."