Jim Jarmusch was dismayed to discover all the money he paid for the rights to Screamin' Jay Hawkins' “Put a Spell on You" went to the record company, with nothing going to Hawkins himself. When the film earned a profit, he tracked down Hawkins to give him some money.

The soundtrack contains no sounds from musical instruments (with the exception of some copyrighted music they had the rights to) instead they used sounds an animal would hear inside a slaughterhouse.

We neeeeeed 28 years later 3!!!!

Cinema is magic and science, emotion and intellectuality, cinema is history and is the future, cinema is for the old, the young, the local and the foreigner, cinema is violent and chaotic and unpredictable yet well thought out and prepared, cinema is for the family and the loners, cinema is the culmination of everything we humans have ever done. 
- a guy who just watched Babylon.

Wooow!!!!!!

"When I first was writing the script I thought it was about loneliness. What I learned while writing the script is this was about a man who suffered from the pathology of loneliness, he wasn't only by nature he was lonely as a defense mechanism and he reinforced his own loneliness by his own behavior and the pathology grew until it became malignant and violent.
(Screenwriter Paul Schrader)