Name: 你有夢想要實現嗎？首先你必須學會「不講道理」！ (Kevin Smith: You must be unreasonable to achieve your dreams | Big Think+)
Uploaded: 2025-06-14T21:01:10.000Z
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I stand before you on Big Think as the first to stand.

我作為第一個站在 Big Think 上的人站在你們面前。

Kids, all my energy is delivered this way.

孩子們，我所有的能量都是這樣傳遞的。

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So I asked the good folks, I was like, can I stand?

所以我問那些好心人，我能站在這嗎？

So let's go on the journey together on our feet.

I feel in order to get to where you're going requires a reasonable amount of unreasonability.

我覺得，為了達到目的，需要合理的不合理。

Not like, hey man, I'm gonna jump off a building and fly without the aid of a jet pack.

而不是說，嘿，各位，我要跳樓，不借助噴氣揹包就能飛起來。

Reasonable amount is just like, you know, why not me?

合理的數額就像，你知道，為什麼不是我？

Started in 1994 with a little motion picture named Clerks, and that's how people came to know me as a writer-director.

1994 年，我開始拍攝一部名為《瘋狂店員》的小電影，人們也因此認識了我，知道我是一名編劇、導演。

Mall Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Cop Out, Red State, Tusk.

《耍酷一族》、《愛，上了癮》、《怒犯天條》、《白爛賤客》、《紐澤西愛未眠》、《波麗士很忙》、《血國》、《人型海象》。

I've got 16 movies, I'm heading toward my 17th.

我已經拍了 16 部電影，馬上就要拍第 17 部了。

So mostly my career, I've been a filmmaker, but somewhere along the line, I decided to just become myself for a living professionally.

在我的職業生涯中，我一直是一名電影製片人，但不知從什麼時候開始，我決定以自己為職業謀生。

So my real title is Professional Kevin Smith.

所以我真正的頭銜是專業凱文-史密斯。

Everybody, mostly everybody except people who are born rich, everybody has had a job and that's what Clerks is about.

每個人，除了生來富有的人，大部分人都有過工作，這就是《瘋狂店員》的主題。

Having a job you hate so much that you do anything else at the job to forget about the fact that you're there to work.

有一份你非常討厭的工作，以至於你在工作中做任何其他事情來忘記你在那裡工作的事實。

This guy is going through all the eggs, look.

這傢伙把所有的蛋都翻遍了，看。

This has been going on for 20 minutes now.

At the end of the day, there's always gonna be some job you don't want that you can take.

說到底，總會有一些你不想要的工作是你可以接受的。

I'd rather die trying to do something I love doing and hope it works out than just kind of commit to that right away.

我寧可死也要做自己喜歡做的事，希望能成功，而不是馬上就投入進去。

So I always had a piece of me that felt like the risk's worth taking.

所以，我一直覺得值得冒這個險。

Why not try to make your dreams come true?

I'd seen a motion picture called Slacker written and directed by Richard Linklater, and he was a filmmaker working in Austin, Texas.

我看過李察·林克雷特自編自導的電影《都市浪人》，他是一位在德州奧斯汀工作的電影製片人。

I did not realize that Austin, Texas, where Slacker was made, was the capital of Texas.

我不知道《都市浪人》的拍攝地德州奧斯汀是德州的首府。

All I heard was this kid made a movie in Texas, in Nowheresville, Texas, and it worked out?

我只聽說這孩子在德州的諾赫斯維爾拍了部電影，結果成功了？

Well, maybe I can make a movie in Nowheresville, New Jersey.

好吧，也許我可以在新澤西州的諾赫斯維爾拍一部電影。

I've said, what's the story I could tell?

I've never seen a movie made in a convenience store before.

我從來沒見過在便利商店裡拍的電影。

After I made the flick, right, I make Clerks.

在我拍完這部電影之後，就是《瘋狂店員》。

I make it on credit cards, $27,575, and I was steamrolling toward this one event, not Sundance, it's called the IFFM, the Independent Feature Film Marketplace.

我用信用卡貸了 27575 美元，然後就去參加一個活動，不是聖丹斯電影節，叫 IFFM，獨立電影市場。

The idea of the marketplace is you fill it with as many potential buyers or press as possible to see the movie.

市場的理念是讓儘可能多的潛在買家或媒體前來觀看電影。

We go, and the only people in the audience at the Angelica Film Center are me and the cast and crew, so 10 of us, and we all worked on the movie.

我們去了，安吉里卡電影中心的觀眾席上只有我和電影的劇組人員，我們一共有 10 個人，大家都參與了這部電影的製作 。

And the first 10 minutes of watching my movie on the big screen, this was the thought process:

在大螢幕上觀看我的電影的前 10 分鐘，我是這樣想的：

為什麼每個人看起來都那麼糟糕？

This movie looks like it was shot through a glass of milk.

這部電影看起來就像是隔著一杯牛奶拍攝的。

I had a kind of breakdown in the moment in the theater.

在劇院的那一刻，我有點崩潰了。

About 15 minutes into the movie, I cognitively reframed it, and I was like,

電影開始大約 15 分鐘後，我對電影進行了認知重構，我想著，

you know what? Two and a half years ago, you were sitting in this movie theater watching Richard Linklater's Slacker, and you had no vision of being a filmmaker,

你知道嗎？兩年半前，你坐在電影院裡看理李察·林克雷特的《都市浪人》，你對成為電影製片人毫無憧憬，

and here you are two and a half years later, and you're watching your own movie in this theater, and yeah, it didn't fill up the way you hoped, but you did it.

兩年半後的今天，你在這個電影院裡看自己的電影，是的，它並沒有像你希望的那樣滿座，但你做到了。

So this costs money that you don't have, so this is what you're gonna do.

這需要花費你沒有的錢，所以這就是你要做的。

You're gonna go get another job, and if you have to, you're gonna get a third job.

你要去找另一份工作，如果有必要，你還要去找第三份工作。

You'll get another job, another job if you have to, so that you pay off this credit card debt.

你會再找一份工作，如果有必要的話，再找一份工作，這樣你就能還清這筆信用卡債務，

And then when you pay off that debt, you're gonna do this one more time before you leave this world, because did you know who you were for the first time in your life when you were standing on that set?

然後當你還清債務後，你會在離開這個世界之前再做一次這樣的事情，因為當你站在片場的時候，你知道你人生中第一次是誰嗎？

You knew exactly who you were supposed to be.

Your whole life prior to that's been a mystery, and then bam, just like that, everything became crystal clear.

在那之前，你的整個人生都是一個謎，然後 "砰 "的一聲，就像那樣，一切都變得清清楚楚。

Don't sell out on this just because it didn't work the way you wanted it to.

不要因為沒有達到預期效果就放棄。

Remember that feeling of finally knowing who you are and get back to that feeling one day.

記住那種終於知道自己是誰的感覺，並在某一天找回這種感覺。

It may cost time, and it may cost money, but get back to that.

這可能要花費時間和金錢，但還是回到這個問題上來吧。

That was the most gratifying thing you've ever felt in this lifetime.

Mercifully, somebody said, you should take this movie to Sundance, and we submitted it.

幸好有人說，你們應該把這部電影帶到聖丹斯電影節去，於是我們就提交了。

It's one of 16 movies of 400 that were submitted.

這是提交的 400 部電影中的 16 部之一。

Suddenly, I went from being a guy who works in a convenience store who made a movie to having a career in film.

突然之間，我從一個在便利商店工作的人拍了一部電影，變成了一名電影從業者。

My parents, when I was heading toward film, they were like, what's your backup?

我的父母，當我向電影方向發展時，他們會問，你的退路是什麼？

You know, because parents care, and they feel like the field that I was heading toward was one that success was never gonna be guaranteed, and in the case of their idiot son, probably wasn't even gonna happen.

你知道，因為父母關心我，他們覺得我所從事的領域是一個永遠無法保證成功的領域，而對他們那個白癡兒子來說，可能根本就不會成功。

But having a reasonable amount of unreasonability allowed me to be like, well, I understand, reasonably speaking, that a lot of people don't bet on themselves and make a movie, even though they've never made one before.

但是，適度的不合理性讓我能夠理解，好吧，我理解，從合理的角度來說，很多人不會冒險拍電影，即使他們以前從未拍過電影。

But I got a reasonable amount of unreasonability here, and so I pursued a career of extended adolescence because, I'll be honest with you kids, one day you die screaming like my father did.

但我在這裡遇到了相當多的不合理之處，所以我選擇了延長青春期的職業生涯，因為，我對你們這些孩子說實話，有一天你們會像我父親一樣尖叫著死去。

You might as well do the thing that you dream about doing, for heaven's sake.

看在上帝的份上，你還不如去做你夢寐以求的事情。

我們很樂意為你拍攝一些肖像照。

Can we do some portraits standing, and then would you mind sitting for a couple portraits?

我們能不能先拍幾張站著的肖像照，然後你介意坐著拍幾張肖像照嗎？

No, no, I don't wanna sit, but I'll totally stand for as many portraits as you want.

不，不，我不想坐著，但我完全可以站著拍你想要的肖像。

I'm getting my steps in, and while I was doing this, I hit 10,000.

我的步數在增加，在做這個的時候，我的步數達到了 10,000 步。

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