- After seeing his film "Brigham City," the mayor of the real Brigham City, Utah, gave him the Key to the City.
- While struggling to become a filmmaker, worked as a cook, an oil rig roughneck, a cider maker, a substitute school teacher, a gas station attendant, a graveyard shift clerk at 7-11, a corporate Spanish language teacher, and a janitor.
- In the mid-90s was a film critic for "Entertainment Today," a Burbank-based weekly. He quit the job when ordered to write positive reviews for bad movies.
- Graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in film. (1988)
- Worked as manager of the apartment building where he filmed "Girl Crazy." The production overstayed its welcome and Dutcher was fired immediately after wrapping principal photography.
- At his high school, was student body vice president and editor of the school newspaper. Was threatened with expulsion over his newspaper editorials critical of the school administration.
- Often uses the same actors in multiple films.
- Collects all the guns his characters use in the films.
- His favorite novels are Leo Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina" and Larry McMurtry's "Lonesome Dove.".
- Owns a Jaguar XJ Portfolio, one of only 35 in the U.S.
- Is an avowed Charlie Chaplin fan.
- Was born Richard Hill. His name was changed at age 7 when his mother married into the Dutcher family.
- He and Gwen Yuill, his wife from 1988-2012, were married in an outdoor stone theater in the mountains above Sundance.
- Was married to Gwen Yuill from 1988-2012. They have seven children.
- Is a lifetime Chicago Cubs fan. His boyhood hero was Cubs' outfielder Billy Williams.
- Born in Oak Park, Illinois, the same city as Ernest Hemingway.
- "Falling" is his favorite of all of his films.
- Speaks fluent Spanish.
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