- His Top 10 Favorite films are 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), The Third Man (1949),The Last of the Mohicans (1992),Eyes Wide Shut (1999),Dead Man (1995),Midnight Cowboy (1969),Halloween (1978), Point Break (1991), and The Big Lebowski (1998).
- Years before the success of "Jersey Shore" he completed two feature-length experimental documentaries with his high school friends chronicling the debauchery and excessive partying of summer life down at the shore. Both documentaries, titled "Down to the Waterline" and "Ocean City Maryland, 1994" remain unreleased due to the use of copyrighted music.
- Favorite band is Pink Floyd.
- He modeled part of his singer/songwriter look and persona on Richard Pindell, a popular English professor whom he admired at Binghamton University. Pindell was a Yale-educated, enigmatic, cowboy hat wearing rebel, spoke with a cadence similar to Don Imus, and was often very funny. He died in 2018.
- Like his guitar hero Mark Knopfler, he is distinctly left handed, but plays the guitar right handed and doesn't use a pick.
- Is an accomplished singer/songwriter and self-taught guitarist. His heroes are Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, and Mark Knopfler.
- Has a phobia of the middle seat on airplanes. On one occasion, he waited for a later flight when he couldn't secure an aisle or window seat.
- In his semi-autobiographical song "Jessica," about an ex-girlfriend, off his first album "Underground King," there is a double reference to the Bob Dylan song, "Visions of Johanna" with the lyric "I miss you more than Johanna when her visions were cruel." The second reference is to a plot point in his unproduced script of the title song in which the main character finds a machine that can enter any celebrity's subconscious. The lyric reads like it could be Dylan referencing his own song.
- Like musician Jack White, he has an obsession with the number 3. Wyatt was born on March 27th. In exponential math terms, that is 3 to the 3rd power. The name of his indie production company is 327 Films.
- Pursued litigation against Tyler Perry for stealing at least 4 scenes from his "Dogs" script which ended up in his tv soap opera "The Haves and The Have Nots" After two pro-bono firms turned him down, he met for free with a mensch of a entertainment lawyer in Queens NY who advised him it would be too costly and he would probably lose the case.
- His three favorite female recording artists are Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star, Cat Power, and Lana Del Rey. He has made both obvious and cryptic references to them in his songs.
- Attended New York Film Academy.
- Graduated with honors from State University of New York at Binghamton, majored in English and minored in Film.
- 2003: Won a cash award from the Birthright Israel Alumni Association for a short film he produced after visiting Israel.
- Hosted a radio show called "The Hollywood Coastal Divide" on WHRW 90.5 Binghamton, one of the last free format college radio stations (1996-1999).
- Graduated from Monroe-Woodbury High School.
- Attended film classes at Binghamton University that were taught by Ken Jacobs.
- Is of Russian-Jewish heritage from his father's side and Belgian descent from his mother.
- Had such a passion to adapt the Dean R. Koontz novel "Lightning," that he spent two years writing the script without the rights while working as a substitute teacher. In March 2009, he sent a letter to the author inquiring about optioning the novel. He received a "cease and desist" letter two weeks later.
- In the Disney produced kid's show Crash & Bernstein (2012), the main character's name is 'Wyatt Bernstein.' Wyatt worked part-time at Disney Publishing as a production assistant from 2005-2007.
- Is an avid bodyboarder.
- From 2001-2004, he performed regularly at NYC open mics as a stand up comedian.
- Resided at 1 Bennett Avenue in Binghamton, NY for two years, down the block from the childhood home of Twilight Zone creator Rod Serling.
- He was accepted to the MFA program at City College of New York with a specialization in Film and Video Editing, but turned it down. (2008)
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