Without it, you have nothing – no exposure that can be seen even what you see with your naked eye needs to be shaped and enhanced by the light.”įor as a true artist living out a marriage between his writing and his filmmaking, his father and his mother, the warrior and the peacemaker, the domesticated and wild man, he has chosen a title that has a double meaning that is subtly woven like a thread through this labyrinthine tale. “One of the first basic lessons in filming,” he writes, “is chasing the light. The title of his fantastic new memoir is a case in point. Like the wandering and rascally Odysseus upon whom he models his life, Oliver Stone is “double-minded” in the most profound and illuminating ways. Odysseus and crew escaping the Cyclops, 1896 painting by Arnold Böcklin.
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