Before Derek Cianfrance decided he wanted to direct what would become Roofman , he asked if he could speak to the movie's subject, the robber Jeffrey Manchester. "I couldn't call him because Jeff is in a max security prison, so I got him my number and somehow he called me. I picked up and he called me back and I picked up and over the course of the next four years, I would get three to four phone calls from him a week," Cianfrance says.  Eventually, Manchester started to address Cianfrance,