Working With Nestor Almondros

I consider myself to have a pretty good vocabulary of film history. When I worked with Nestor and Scorsese, those two guys, you'd be on the set with them and the conversation they'd be having would go from like Jerry Lewis to Roger Deacons in a minute. And it just was amazing to me to hear that. You know, Nestor had a great influence on me. Back in his operating days, he was working with a so-called famous cinematographer who I won't mention. But anyway, one day I would line up the shot and then we do it with standards and then I would go over to Nestor and say, is this what you want