Named by Kodak as among the "100 Top Cinematographers in the World," Roy H. Wagner is responsible for some of the most striking and unique photography in American cinema and television of the past forty years. Mentored by legendary cinematographers of Hollywood's Golden Age and beginning his career during the revolutionary aesthetic shifts of the New Hollywood era, Wagner has brought both a studio craftsman ethic and maverick artistic sensibility to his work that includes A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Beauty and the Beast, Quantum Leap, House M.D., among many others.

This autobiography charts Roy's life as a young small-town Midwestern dreamer to his career as an acclaimed, award-winning Hollywood filmmaker. Together with co-author Wayne Byrne, Roy takes the reader on a candid journey behind the scenes on a selection of his most notable film and television productions, revealing some of the highs and lows of a lauded Hollywood career, and detailing his professional collaborations with fellow filmmakers and industry figures such as John Badham, Richard Franklin, Seymour Friedman, Bill Froehlich, Peter O'Fallon, William Fraker, Diane Keaton, Dennis Maguire, Harry Stradling, Patrick Swayze, Kevin Tenney and many more.