- Some of Hartley's favorite films include Marat/Sade (1967, dir. Peter Brook), The Thin Red Line (1998, dir. Terrence Malick), A Hard Day's Night (1964, dir. Richard Lester), and Prénom Carmen (1983, dir. Jean-Luc Godard).
- Hartley paid for college by working alongside his father, uncles, cousins, and brothers as an apprentice steelworker on construction sites in New York City.
- Hartley, who composes the music for his films (formerly under the pseudonym Ned Rifle), will be releasing his first non-soundtrack album in 2012.
- Studied film at State University of New York at Purchase, where he met Robert John Burke who later starred in The Unbelievable Truth (1989).
- The most repeatedly read authors in his library are Robert Musil (particularly, The Man Without Qualities), Montaigne (the essays), Beckett (the novels), Moliere, Joseph Roth, and Thomas Hardy.
- Son or Harold and Eileen Hartley.
- Has 2 sons.
- Retrospective at the 7th New Horizons Film Festival (2007).
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