Biografía

25 de junio de 1951 · Newark, Nueva Jersey, Estados Unidos

Ernest Roscoe Dickerson

Graduated from Howard University, an Historically Black college in Washington, DC, and later met filmmaker Spike Lee while both of them were attending New York University's Film School.

Member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) since 1990. He was its first African-American member.

Frequently worked as a cinematographer on many of Spike Lee's early movies.

Taught film classes at Howard University's School of Communications.

One of his all-time favorite movies of all time is John Huston's adaptation of Moby Dick, having seen it multiple times as a kid.

(About his movie 'Demon Knight): I've always enjoyed films that did a bit of genre-blending and I thought the story for Demon Knight did that perfectly. It was the perfect storm of horror, humor, thrills, had some mystery to it and a lot of emotion so I immediately knew this was going to be a very atypical horror movie to be involved with.

I've been fortunate enough that the rappers that I have worked with have all taken their work very seriously. I first worked with Tupac on my first film, but that was before he was really known. Then Ice-T came very correct. And Snoop Dogg in Bones took his role very seriously and DMX took his role very seriously. I think, to me, if the person comes to the project really wanting to act or really wanting to create a character and is willing to put in the time and work to do that.

[About the 'horror' genre]: I always loved the genre, and been very serious about it, I can never understand why critical voices didn't give it its proper place in literature and cinema, because it has produced some of the best we ever had.

I figure I'll probably die in the director's chair. One day I'll say cut, and suddenly just fall out of my chair and die or something.