著名導演斯皮爾伯格在哈佛2016年畢業典禮上的演講

美國著名電影導演、編劇電影製作人、慈善家史蒂文·斯皮爾伯格，曾經三次榮獲奧斯卡獎，並且是有史以來電影總票房最高的導演，他的三部代表作電影包括《大白鯊》 、《E.T.外星人》與《侏羅紀公園》。

2016年5月26日，斯皮爾伯格在2016年哈佛畢業典禮演講上發表了演講，這篇演講的中英文整理了一下，分享給大家：

聽從內心，追隨直覺

演講時間：2016年5月26日

——著名電影導演史蒂文·斯皮爾伯格在哈佛2016年畢業典禮上的勵志演講稿

Thank you, thank you, President Faust, and Paul Choi, thank you so much.

非常感謝Faust校長、Paul Choi校長，謝謝你們。

It's an honor and a thrill to address this group of distinguished alumni and supportive friends and kvelling parents. We've all gathered to share in the joy of this day, so please join me in congratulating Harvard's Class of 2016.

非常榮幸能被邀請成爲哈佛2016年畢業典禮的演講嘉賓，在衆位優秀的畢業生、熱情的朋友和諸位家長前做演講。今天讓我們一起，祝賀2016屆哈佛畢業生順利畢業。

I can remember my own college graduation, which is easy, since it was only 14 years ago. How many of you took 37 years to graduate? Because, like most of you, I began college in my teens, but sophomore year, I was offered my dream job at Universal Studios, so I dropped out. I told my parents if my movie career didn't go well, I'd re-enroll.

我記得我自己的大學畢業典禮，這不難，因爲就是14年以前的事情。你們當中的多少人花了37年才畢業？因爲就像你們中的多數人，我在十幾歲時進入大學，但是大二的時候我從環球影城獲得了我的夢想工作，所以我休學了。我跟我的父母說，如果我的電影事業不順，我會重新上學的。

It went all right.

我的電影事業發展得還行。

But eventually, I returned for one big reason. Most people go to college for an education, and some go for their parents, but I went for my kids. I'm the father of seven, and I kept insisting on the importance of going to college, but I hadn't walked the walk. So, in my fifties, I re-enrolled at Cal State - Long Beach, and I earned my degree.

但是我最後還是回到了學校，主要爲了一個原因。很多人爲了獲得教育去上大學，有的人爲了父母上大學，而我是爲了我的孩子去上的。我是7個孩子的爸爸，我總是不斷強調上大學的重要性，可我自己都沒上過。所以在我50多歲的時候，我重新進入加州州立大學長灘分校，獲得了學位。

I just have to add: It helped that they gave me course credit in paleontology for the work I did on Jurassic Park. That's three units for Jurassic Park, thank you.

我必須補充一點，我獲得學位的一個原因是學校爲我在《侏羅紀公園》裏所做的，給我了考古學學分。《侏羅紀公園》換得了3個學分，非常感謝。

Well, I left college because I knew exactly what I wanted to do, and some of you know, too - but some of you don't. Or maybe you thought you knew but are now questioning that choice. Maybe you're sitting there trying to figure out how to tell your parents that you want to be a doctor and not a comedy writer.

我離開大學是因爲我很清楚地知道我想要做什麼。你們中的一些人也知道，但是有些人還沒弄明白。或者你以爲你知道，但是現在開始質疑這個決定。或者你坐在這裏，試着想要怎麼告訴你的父母，你想要成爲一名醫生，而不是喜劇編劇。

Well, what you choose to do next is what we call in the movies the 'character-defining moment.' Now, these are moments you're very familiar with, like in the last Star Wars: The Force Awakens, when Rey realizes the force is with her. Or Indiana Jones choosing mission over fear by jumping over a pile of snakes.

你接下來要做的事情，在我們這行叫做“定義角色的時刻”。這些是你非常熟悉的場景，例如在最近的一部《星球大戰：原力覺醒》裏女主角Rey發現自己擁有原力的一刻。或者在《奪寶奇兵》裏印第安納·瓊斯選擇戰勝恐懼跳過蛇堆，繼續任務的時候。

Now in a two-hour movie, you get a handful of character-defining moments, but in real life, you face them every day. Life is one strong, long string of character-defining moments. And I was lucky that at 18 I knew what I exactly wanted to do. But I didn't know who I was. How could I? And how could any of us? Because for the first 25 years of our lives, we are trained to listen to voices that are not our own. Parents and professors fill our heads with wisdom and information, and then employers and mentors take their place and explain how this world really works.

一部兩小時的電影裏有幾個定義角色的時刻，但是在真實的生活中，你每天都在面對這樣的時刻。生活就是一長串強大的定義角色的時刻。我非常幸運在18歲時就知道我想要做什麼。但是我並不知道我是誰。我怎麼可能知道呢？我們中任何人都不知道。因爲在生命的頭一個25年裏，我們被訓練去傾聽除自己以外的人的聲音。父母和教授們把智慧和信息塞進我們的腦袋，然後換上僱主和導師來向我們解釋這個世界到底是怎麼一回事。

And usually these voices of authority make sense, but sometimes, doubt starts to creep into our heads and into our hearts. And even when we think, 'that's not quite how I see the world,' it's kind of easier to just to nod in agreement and go along, and for a while, I let that going along define my character. Because I was repressing my own point of view, because like in that Nilsson song, 'Everybody was talkin' at me, so I couldn't hear the echoes of my mind.'

通常這些權威人物的聲音是有道理的，但是有些時候，質疑會爬進你的腦子和心裏。就算我們覺得“這好像不太是我看世界的方式”，點頭表示贊同也是更容易做的事情，有段時間我就讓“附和”定義了我。因爲我壓抑了自己的想法，因爲就像尼爾森歌裏唱的一樣：“每個人都在對我說話，所以我聽不見我思考的回聲。”