What is Spike Lee like to work with?
ED: Well, Spike was always cool with me! [laughs] We go way back, you know. You know, he was a director and I was a cinematographer for him. We love film. We love cinema. We were always trying to find new ways of narratives, new ways of visually conveying a story to an audience. We were always trying something different and it was something I’ve tried to continue in my work. Even up to Never Die Alone, where the whole style of the film was based on (narrative). This may come as a surprise to some people, but the film is actually based on a Donald Goines novel. How much information did you take from the book and put on film? ED: We backed off from the graphicness of Goines’ writing. I think that Jim Gibson, the screenwriter, did a really great job of adapting Goines’ writing. He also took themes that Goines left half developed or undeveloped or even suggested in his book. He took those a whole step further and developed them even further for the screenplay. So, I think a lot of the stor
