"a lot of people think that because my father was an actor, i come from this big show-business background," hutton told bruce cook of "american film" magazine in 1981. "but that's not how i grew up at all. my mother took us to cambridge because she wanted to get her m.a. she wound up teaching in connecticut, but the way she saw it, after a while, if we all stayed there, my sister and i would just wind up as the proprietors of the local drugstore or something, so that was why she took us to berkeley – to get us into the world, i guess. now she's given up teaching and she's into printing miniature books."