- Michael Haneke has acknowledged Jost as one of his influences (along with Robert Bresson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Marie Straub, Abbas Kiarostami and Michelangelo Antonioni).
- Often makes films set in the back country of the American West. Of his 20+ features, five have been shot in Oregon, five in California, four in Montana, two in Nebraska, and one in Utah.
- For years had hoped to adapt several short stories by Northwest author, Raymond Carver, before Robert Altman beat him to the rights and made Short Cuts (1993). When Jost learned that Altman had set the stories in urban Los Angeles, instead of the rural Northwest, he was furious, and has refused to see the film.
- Was the first recipient (along with producer Ed Pressman) of the "John Casavettes Lifetime Achievement Award" at the 1991 Spirit Awards.
- Currently teaches film at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. (October 2008)
- For two years lived in a one-room Montana cabin, with no running water or electricity. During this period he made his first feature, Speaking Directly (1973).
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