- Very good friend of Johnny Ramone, Rick Rubin, PJ Harvey, John Frusciante, Lukas Haas, Val Kilmer and Anna Sui.
- Is a big music enthusiast. Gallo owns over 30,000 vinyl albums and has the largest collection of vintage Hi Fi and audio gear in the USA.
- During his late teens he fled to Europe alone and ended up spending a year traveling around France, Spain, Great Britain, Portugal, Sweden, Russia, Denmark and Italy.
- Has over 7500 videotapes, laser discs, DVDs, and film prints.
- Was engaged to Italian actress Asia Argento in 1998.
- Was in an experimental noise band called Gray with New York artist Jean Michel Basquiat in the early 1980s. They played at all the most popular punk rock/new wave clubs in the city, including Max's Kansas City, CBGB's, and one (now famous) night at the Mudd Club. They broke up soon after and Basquiat became famous and several years after that Gallo would also become famous.
- Was a hip-hop breakdancer in the early '80s as evidenced in the DVD "Graffiti Rock".
- Dropped out of Sweet Home Central Schools, New York. (1978)
- Released an album (titled "When") on the Warp label in 2001. He composed, performed and produced all the music on the record.
- Childhood idol: Chris Squire, bass player of Yes.
- Living in downtown Los Angeles. Within the past 24 months, he has written, directed and produced three films, two of which were in the 67th Venice film festival and both were in competition. At that festival, Gallo won the best actor prize. Mr. Gallo is currently set to star in an Italian film titled The Legend of Kaspar Hauser (2012). (April 2011)
- He writes for a magazine called Sound Practices.
- Son of Genevieve Gallo and Vincenzo Vito Gallo.
- Called off engagement to writer Bethany Ritz. (April 2000)
- Divides his time between Los Angeles and NYC.
- Was originally set to play Tony Childress/Jesus in Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005).
- Co-founded the NYC Breakers.
- Working on second directorial movie, The Brown Bunny (2003). Lives in NYC and L.A. (March 2002)
- Known for his multiple talents (filmmaker, actor, writer, musician, audio engineer, motorcycle racer), as well for his very conceptual and outspoken views and his radical, funny and original way of stating those views. A totally original one-of-a-kind person.
- Announced engagement to New York writer, Bethany Ritz. (April 1999)
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