I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction.

它會把我的思想帶領到其他世界中，

this insatiable sense of curiosity that I had.

And you know, that curiosity also manifested itself

你要知道，我的好奇心很強烈，

in the fact that whenever I wasn't in school

frogs and snakes and bugs and pond water --

and bringing it back, looking at it under the microscope.

然後把它帶回家中放在顯微鏡下觀看。

But it was all about trying to understand the world,

瞭解所有可能發生的事的極限。

actually seemed mirrored in the world around me,

實際上可反映在我週圍的世界中，

because what was happening, this was in the late '60s,

因為在六十年代末發生了許多事，

Jacques Cousteau was coming into our living rooms

傑克．庫斯托(著名深海探險家)拍攝了

that we could never really have previously imagined.

with the whole science fiction part of it.

And I found that because there weren't video games

我發現我繪畫是因為那時沒有電視遊戲，

and this saturation of CG movies and all of this

沒有這些色彩飽和的電腦動畫電影，

更沒有現代媒體所創造的影像，

我需要在我的腦中創造出那些影像。

就像小孩讀書一樣，我們所做的，

read a book, and through the author's description,

put something on the movie screen in our heads.

把畫面呈現在我們腦海中的電影螢幕上。

And so, my response to this was to paint, to draw

所以，我的作法就是把它描繪出來，

機械人、太空船等所有這些東西畫出來。

I was endlessly getting busted in math class

我不斷地在數學課中遭到挫敗，

And an interesting thing happened: The Jacques Cousteau shows

然後有一件有趣的事情發生了，傑克．庫斯托的節目

actually got me very excited about the fact that there was

告訴我們地球上有一個外星世界存在，

But that was a world I could really go to,

但他所介紹的地方，是我真的可以去到的地方 --

right here on Earth, that was as rich and exotic

就在這地球上，就和我讀科幻書

So, I decided I was going to become a scuba diver

And the only problem with that was that I lived

離最近的海洋也有約一千公里之遠，

I pestered my father until he finally found

我苦苦糾纏我父親，後來他終於發現，

紐約水牛城有開設一堂潛水課，

right across the border from where we live.

從我們住的地方跨過邊境就到了。

而我真的在一個嚴寒的冬天裡，

in a pool at a YMCA in the dead of winter

在紐約水牛城女青年會裡的游泳池，

And I didn't see the ocean, a real ocean,

在那之前，我沒有見過真正的海洋，

我已在海底待了大約三千個小時，

and 500 hours of that was in submersibles.

And I've learned that that deep-ocean environment,

I still, to this day, stand in absolute awe

我仍敬畏我在潛水時看到的景像。

And my love affair with the ocean is ongoing,

但當我像其他成年人一樣選擇職業時，

And that seemed to be the best way to reconcile

And I was, as a kid, constantly drawing comic books, and so on.

當我還是小孩時，我經常畫漫畫之類的東西，

So, filmmaking was the way to put pictures and stories

而拍電影是把圖像、故事放在一起，

And of course the stories that I chose to tell

were science fiction stories: "Terminator," "Aliens"

是科幻故事，像是"魔鬼終結者"、"異形"、

And with "The Abyss," I was putting together my love

而在"無底洞"裡，我把我所愛的

of underwater and diving with filmmaking.

這等於是把兩種熱情融合在一起。

Something interesting came out of "The Abyss,"

在拍攝"無底洞"時，發生了一些有趣的事情，

which was that to solve a specific narrative

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