國際知名大導演史蒂文·斯皮爾伯格近日在哈佛大學畢業典禮上發表了題為《傾聽內心低語》的精彩演講，博古通今將電影制作和靈感做了深刻而風趣的解說。

史蒂文·斯皮爾伯格是一名富有傳奇色彩的好萊塢導演，其代表作有家喻戶曉的《大白鯊》，《E.T，》，《侏羅紀公園》，《辛德勒名單》等。2024年《時代》雜志將其列入世紀百大人物之一。斯皮爾伯格的演講以自嘲開場——這位今年已70歲的大導演說，自己直到2002年（已56歲）才大學畢業，因為年輕時在大學期間早早就確信了自己想要做的事，所以就輟學了。后來，因為他總是對自己的7個孩子強調大學教育的重要性，但自己卻沒有身體力行，所以決定在五十多歲時重返大學獲得了學位。

以下為演講視頻和雙語全文：

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 cavelling parents. We’ve all gathered to share in the joy of this day, so please join me in congratulating Harvard’s Class of 2024.

我懷著無比榮譽和興奮的心情在這群杰出校友和支持我的朋友以及我的父母面前演講。我們都聚集在一起，分享這一天的歡樂，所以請和我一起祝賀2024的哈佛典禮。

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，因為就是14年以前的事情。你們當中的多少人花了37年才畢業？因為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。（同學們大笑了～）

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.

但是我最后還是回到了學校，主要為了一個原因。很多人為了獲得教育去上大學，有的人為了父母上大學，而我是為了我的孩子去上的。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為我在《侏羅紀公園》里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。（同學們又大笑了～）

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.

我離開大學是因為我很清楚地知道我想要做什么。你們中的一些人也知道，但是有些人還沒弄明白。或者你以為你知道，但是現在開始質疑這個決定。或者你坐在這里，試著想要怎么告訴你的父母，你想要成為一名醫生，而不是喜劇編劇。（同學們又大笑了～）

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》里女主角Rey發現自己擁有原力的一刻。或者在《奪寶奇兵》里印第安納·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.

一部兩小時的電影里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么。但是我并不知道我是誰。我怎么可能知道呢？我們中任何人都不知道。因為在生命的頭一個25年里，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，然后換上雇主和導師來向我們解釋這個世界到底是怎么一回事。

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里。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。因為我壓抑了自己的想法，因為就像尼爾森歌里唱的一樣：“每個人都在對我說話，所以我聽不見我思考的回聲。”

And at first, the internal voice I needed to listen to was hardly audible, and it was hardly noticeable — kind of like me in high school. But then I started paying more attention, and my intuition kicked in.

一開始，我需要傾聽的內心的聲音幾乎一聲不響，也難以察覺——就像高中時的我。但是之后我開始更加注意這些聲音，然后我的直覺開始工作。

And I want to be clear that your intuition is different from your conscience. They work in tandem, but here’s the distinction: Your conscience shouts, ‘here’s what you should do,’ while your intuition whispers, ‘here’s what you could do.’ Listen to that voice that tells you what you could do. Nothing will define your character more than that.

我想告訴你，你的直覺和你的良心是兩個不同的事物。它們會協力工作，但這是它們的不同：你的良心會呼喊“你應當去做這個”，而你的直覺只會低語“你是可以這樣做的”。傾聽那個告訴你你能怎么去做的聲音。沒有什么比這更能定義你的角色的了。

Because once I turned to my intuition, and I tuned into it, certain projects began to pull me into them, and others, I turned away from.

因為我一旦會聽從我的直覺，我就會全力投入到一些項目中去，而放棄其它。

And up until the 1980s, my movies were mostly, I guess what you could call ‘escapist.’ And I don’t dismiss any of these movies — not even 1941. Not even that one. And many of these early films reflected the values that I cared deeply about, and I still do. But I was in a celluloid bubble, because I’d cut my education short, my worldview was limited to what I could dream up in my head, not what the world could teach me.

直到19世紀80年代時，我電影中的大多數，我猜你們可以稱之為“逃避現實”。我不會拒絕任何這些電影的邀約，不只是《1941》。不止那一部，很多早期電影反映了我當時內心的價值觀，如今我仍然在這樣做。但我當時處于自己的電影泡沫中，因為我的輟學，我受限的世界觀部分來自于我的想象，而不是外界教會我的。

But then I directed The Color Purple. And this one film opened my eyes to experiences that I never could have imagined, and yet were all too real. This story was filled with deep pain and deeper truths, like when Shug Avery says, ‘Everything wants to be loved.’ My gut, which was my intuition, told me that more people needed to meet these characters and experience these truths. And while making that film, I realized that a movie could also be a mission.

當我執導《紫色》的時候，這部電影讓我體驗了我從未想象過，卻如此真實的一些感受。這個故事充滿了深深的痛苦和更深一步的真理，就像Shug Avery說“任何一個東西都想被愛著。”我的直覺告訴我，更多的人需要來認識這樣的角色，來體驗這樣的真理。在導演這部電影時，我突然發現一部電影也可以是一個使命。

I hope all of you find that sense of mission. Don’t turn away from what’s painful. Examine it. Challenge it.

我希望你們所有人都能找到這樣的使命感。不要避讓讓你痛苦的事情。研究它、挑戰它。

My job is to create a world that lasts two hours. Your job is to create a world that lasts forever. You are the future innovators, motivators, leaders and caretakers.

我的工作是要構筑一個維持兩小時的世界。你的工作是要建一個會一直持續的世界。你們是未來的創新者、激勵者、領導者和守護者。

And the way you create a better future is by studying the past. Jurassic Park writer Michael Crichton, who graduated from both this college and this medical school, liked to quote a favorite professor of his who said that if you didn’t know history, you didn’t know anything. You were a leaf that didn’t know it was part of a tree. So history majors: Good choice, you’re in great shape…Not in the job market, but culturally.

你們要研究過去，才能建設一個更好的未來。《侏羅紀公園》的編劇Michael Crichton是從這所大學的醫學院畢業的。他喜歡引用他最喜歡的一位教授的話，他說如果你不懂得歷史，那么你一無所知。你是一片樹葉，不知道自己只是樹的一部分。所以主修歷史的同學們，很棒的選擇，你的前景不錯…不是說在招聘市場上啊，從文化上來說的話。

The rest of us have to make a little effort. Social media that we’re inundated and swarmed with is about the here and now. But I’ve been fighting and fighting inside my own family to get all my kids to look behind them, to look at what already has happened. Because to understand who they are is to understand who were were, and who their grandparents were, and then, what this country was like when they emigrated here. We are a nation of immigrants — at least for now.

我們剩下的其它人就需要努點力了。淹沒和吞噬我們的社交媒體只關乎當下。但是我自己和家人都不斷嘗試，讓我所有的孩子們能透過這些，去看過去發生過的事情。因為要知道他們是誰，就要去理解他們曾經是誰，他們的祖父母是誰，以及當他們移民到這個國家來的時候，這個國家到底是什么樣。我們是一個移民國家——至少現在還是。

So to me, this means we all have to tell our own stories. We have so many stories to tell. Talk to your parents and your grandparents, if you can, and ask them about their stories. And I promise you, like I have promised my kids, you will not be bored.

所以對我來說，這意味著我們每個人都有自己的故事可講，有很多故事可講。如果可以的話，和你的父母、祖父母聊聊天，聽聽他們的故事。我保證，就像我向我的孩子保證的一樣，一定收獲頗豐，絕對不會無聊。

And that’s why I so often make movies based on real-life events. I look to history not to be didactic, ‘cause that’s just a bonus, but I look because the past is filled with the greatest stories that have ever been told. Heroes and villains are not literary constructs, but they’re at the heart of all history.

這就是為什么我經常就會導演由真實事件改編的電影。我回顧歷史并不是為了說教，這是額外的獎勵，我回顧歷史因為過去充滿了那些從來沒被講述出來的偉大故事。英雄和壞人不是文學塑造出來的，而是在一切歷史的最中心。

And again, this is why it’s so important to listen to your internal whisper. It’s the same one that compelled Abraham Lincoln and Oskar Schindler to make the correct moral choices. In your defining moments, do not let your morals be swayed by convenience or expediency. Sticking to your character requires a lot of courage. And to be courageous, you’re going to need a lot of support.

所以，這就是為什么傾聽你內心的低語非常重要。這與驅使亞伯拉罕·林肯和奧斯卡·辛德勒去做正確的道德選擇的東西是一樣的。在屬于你的“定義角色的時刻”里，不要讓你的道德被便利或者私利左右。忠于你的角色需要很多的勇氣，變得勇敢，你又需要很多的支持。

And if you’re lucky, you have parents like mine. I consider my mom my lucky charm. And when I was 12 years old, my father handed me a movie camera, the tool that allowed me to make sense of this world. And I am so grateful to him for that. And I am grateful that he’s here at Harvard, sitting right down there.

如果你足夠幸運，你會有像我父母一樣開明的父母。我把母親看做我的幸運女神。12歲時，我父親給了我一個電影攝像機，也是因為有了這個，我可以更好地去感知這個世界，我很感謝我的父親。現在我很感激父親也來到哈佛，坐在這里。

My dad is 99 years old, which means he’s only one year younger than Widener Library. But unlike Widener, he’s had zero cosmetic work. And dad, there’s a lady behind you, also 99, and I’ll introduce you after this is over, okay?

我父親今年99歲了，只比懷德納圖書館（哈佛最大的圖書館今年100年）年輕1歲，但不像這個圖書館可以翻新，父親已垂垂老矣。另外，父親，在你身后有一位99歲的女士，這個之后我會介紹你給她，好嗎？

But look, if your family’s not always available, there’s backup. Near the end of It’s a Wonderful Life — you remember that movie, It’s a Wonderful Life? Clarence the Angel inscribes a book with this: “No man is a failure who has friends.” And I hope you hang on to the friendships you’ve made here at Harvard. And among your friends, I hope you find someone you want to share your life with. I imagine some of you in this yard may be a tad cynical, but I want to be unapologetically sentimental. I spoke about the importance of intuition and how there’s no greater voice to follow. That is, until you meet the love of your life. And this is what happened when I met and married Kate, and that became the greatest character-defining moment of my life.

但是，如果你的家人并不總是支持你，還有B計劃。在《生活多美好》劇終前，天使Clarence在一本書上題寫了這句話：“有朋友的人，不會是生活的失敗者。”我希望你們會珍惜在哈佛建立的這些友誼。而在你的朋友之中，我希望你們找個能分享你生活的另一半。我猜想你們中的一些人對此會會抱有懷疑，但是我表現出的感性毫無歉意。我說了直覺的重要性，以及除了直覺沒有更值得追隨的聲音。這是指在你遇到你一生最愛之前。我與妻子相戀并結婚的經歷就是如此，這成為了我生活中最重要的“定義角色的時刻”。

Love, support, courage, intuition. All of these things are in your hero’s quiver, but still, a hero needs one more thing: A hero needs a villain to vanquish. And you’re all in luck. This world is full of monsters. And there’s racism, homophobia, ethnic hatred, class hatred, there’s political hatred, and there’s religious hatred.

愛、支持、勇氣、直覺。所有的這些都在你英雄的箭袋之中，但是英雄還需要一件東西——英雄需要一個去征服的壞人。而你們所有人都很走運，這個世界充滿了怪物。有種族歧視、恐同、種族仇恨、階級仇恨，還有政治仇恨和宗教仇恨。

As a kid, I was bullied — for being Jewish. This was upsetting, but compared to what my parents and grandparents had faced, it felt tame. Because we truly believed that anti-Semitism was fading. And we were wrong. Over the last two years, nearly 20,000 Jews have left Europe to find higher ground. And earlier this year, I was at the Israeli embassy when President Obama stated the sad truth. He said: ‘We must confront the reality that around the world, anti-Semitism is on the rise. We cannot deny it.’