ERNEST DICKERSON on WHY TV IS BETTER THAN MOVIES, Part A (MF Galaxy 012)
Film and
television director Ernest Dickerson
initially
achieved fame as a celebrated cinematographer, photographing feature films including
The Brother
from Another Planet, Krush Groove,
She's Gotta
Have It, Eddie
Murphy: Raw, School Daze,
Do the Right
Thing, Mo’
Better Blues, Jungle Fever,
and Malcolm X.
In 1992, Dickerson made the jump to directing his own feature films, including Juice, which he also wrote, and which launched the acting career of Tupac Shakur; Surviving the Game with Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, and F. Murray Abraham, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight with Jada Pinkett and Billy Zane, Bulletproof with Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler, Bones, with Pam Grier and Snoop Dogg, and Never Die Alone with DMX and David Arquette.
In addition to having directed eleven episodes of the smash hit The Walking Dead, Dickerson has helmed episodes of Under the Dome, Revolution, Treme, Sleepy Hollow, Dexter, Low Winter Sun, Stargate Universe, The Vampire Diaries, Law & Order, Medium, The Wire, Weeds, ER, Heroes, The L Word, and Third Watch, among many others.
In this, part one of our conversation, Dickerson discusses:
In 1992, Dickerson made the jump to directing his own feature films, including Juice, which he also wrote, and which launched the acting career of Tupac Shakur; Surviving the Game with Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, and F. Murray Abraham, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight with Jada Pinkett and Billy Zane, Bulletproof with Damon Wayans and Adam Sandler, Bones, with Pam Grier and Snoop Dogg, and Never Die Alone with DMX and David Arquette.
In addition to having directed eleven episodes of the smash hit The Walking Dead, Dickerson has helmed episodes of Under the Dome, Revolution, Treme, Sleepy Hollow, Dexter, Low Winter Sun, Stargate Universe, The Vampire Diaries, Law & Order, Medium, The Wire, Weeds, ER, Heroes, The L Word, and Third Watch, among many others.
In this, part one of our conversation, Dickerson discusses:
- How Hollywood could be spending its money more wisely to innovate more profitably
- Why it’s easier than ever to make a feature film
- His top-secret new movie—his first since 2004’s Never Die Alone
- The booming Caribbean filmmaking industry
- Age barriers in Hollywood directing
- How to get ahead as a Hollywood director, and
- The outrageous pretext that a director gave for racially profiling him out of a job.
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