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• Director Robert Rodriguez edited the movie in his garage. His garage is actually a state of the art editing studio that is in his home, but he calls it his garage.
  
  
• The Thumb-Thumbs are based on a drawing that Robert Rodriguez did as a child.
  
  
• The name of the Teri Hatcher character, Miss Gradenko, is a reference to a song by The Police on their 1983 "Synchronicity" album.
  
  

• Inspired by Rodriguez's segment in Four Rooms (1995).
  
  
• Cheech Marin plays the co-worker of Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez. On "Nash Bridges", he played the co-worker of Evan Cortez.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Robert Rodriguez] [Actors] - Danny Trejo. His characters in Rodriguez films are usually named after a type of knife. (He plays Isador "Machete" Cortez)
  
  
• The characters in the film, Gregorio, Carmen and Juni are named after family members of Robert Rodriguez.
  
  
• The last Rodriguez movie shot on film. Post-production was done at George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch where he introduced Rodriguez to High-Definition digital filmmaking.
  
  
• In the background outside Machete's shop, there is a sign which reads "Baile an Liopaird" (Irish for "Town of the Leopard"). Leopardstown is an actual suburb of Dublin, Ireland, but its correct name in Irish is actually "Baile na Lobhar" ("Town of the Lepers" - hence originally Leperstown), which comes from a leper colony that was originally in the area.
  
  
• The San Diablo aerial view is actually an aerial view of Santiago de Chile.
  
  

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