Trivia / Paris, Texas

• All There in the Manual: Wim Wenders and Nastassja Kinski wrote a diary for the character Jane to develop her backstory, imagining her emigrating from Europe, and getting more affection from Travis than she had from anyone.
• European Doubling: Many of the interiors and insert shots were filmed in Paris and Berlin.
• Career Resurrection: This movie (along with Dune (1984)) saved Dean Stockwell's flagging career. He would be nominated for an Oscar before the decade was out and he remained a familiar face in movies and TV until his retirement.
• In Memoriam: The film ends on a title card reading "For Lotte H. Eisner".
• Referenced by...: The teaser for the Beyoncé album Cowboy Carter references the opening scene of the film with the Texas desert backdrop and the man wearing a red cap walking through it, with the album's lyric videos using similar typography as the film. Wim Wenders himself has acknowleged the homage.
• What Could Have Been: According to Dean Stockwell, his character in early drafts was intended to travel with Hunter, Travis and Anne before Anne turned back to Los Angeles and Walt became lost in the desert, paralleling Travis in the first scene.
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants: Shooting started in 1983 while the screenplay was still incomplete, with the objective of filming in the order of the story. Writer Sam Shepard planned to base the rest of the story on their understanding of the characters and observations of the actors. However, when Shepard moved on to another job, he sent director Wenders notes on how the screenplay should end instead. He credited Wenders and co-writer L. M. Kit Carson with the idea of a peep show and the story's final acts.