David Hoffman: How would you feel if you lost everything?

譯者: Pauline YW Lin 審譯者: Lucy Chang

I had a fire nine days ago.

九天前我經歷了一場火災

My archive:

我的存檔

175 films, my 16-millimeter negative,

175部電影 我的16釐米底片

all my books, my dad's books, my photographs.

所有我的藏書以及我爸的藏書

I'd collected --

我所收藏的

I was a collector, major, big-time.

我是個收藏家 重要的 一流的

It's gone.

通通都沒了

I just looked at it,

我就只是看著一切發生

and I didn't know what to do.

我不知道要做什麼

I mean, this was --

我是指 這個是

was I my things?

我的東西嗎???

I always live in the present -- I love the present.

我總是活在當下--我喜歡當下

I cherish the future.

我珍惜未來

And I was taught some strange thing as a kid,

我小時候被教了一些奇怪的觀念

like, you've got to make something good out of something bad.

像是：你必須從壞事中，創造出好的事情

You've got to make something good out of something bad.

你必須從壞事之中，創造好的事情

This was bad! Man, I was --

這真是壞事! 唉~ 我--

I cough. I was sick.

我咳嗽 我生病了

That's my camera lens. The first one --

那是我的相機鏡頭 我的第一個鏡頭

the one I shot my Bob Dylan film with 35 years ago.

三十五年前我拍攝鮑伯迪倫的那個鏡頭

That's my feature film. "King, Murray"

這是我執導的電影King, Murray

won Cannes Film Festival 1970 --

在1970年贏得坎城電影獎座

the only print I had.

我僅有的拷貝

That's my papers.

這是我的文件

That was in minutes -- 20 minutes.

就在短短幾分鐘之內 -- 20分鐘

Epiphany hit me. Something hit me.

靈光乍現，這念頭突然出現

"You've got to make something good out of something bad,"

"你要從壞事中，創造出好的事情"

I started to say to my friends, neighbors, my sister.

我開始跟朋友、鄰居、姐姐說

By the way, that's "Sputnik." I ran it last year.

還有，這是"人造衛星" 我去年做的

"Sputnik" was downtown, the negative. It wasn't touched.

人造衛星的底片放在市區，沒有被波及

These are some pieces of things I used in my Sputnik feature film,

這些是一些我用在人造衛星影片中的東西

which opens in New York in two weeks

電影二個禮拜內會在紐約上映

downtown.

在市區

I called my sister. I called my neighbors. I said, "Come dig."

我打電話給我的姐姐、我的鄰居。我說："過來一起挖吧!"

That's me at my desk.

那是我在書桌旁

That was a desk took 40-some years to build.

這張書桌花了四十幾年才作好的

You know -- all the stuff.

你知道的 所有的東西

That's my daughter, Jean.

這是我的女兒 Jean

She came. She's a nurse in San Francisco.

她在舊金山當護士，也過來了

"Dig it up," I said. "Pieces.

"開挖吧!" 我說："不要放過任何碎片，

I want pieces. Bits and pieces."

"我要這些碎片"

I came up with this idea: a life of bits and pieces,

我想到一個點子：生命的浮光片羽

which I'm just starting to work on -- my next project.

這就是我正著手進行的下一個計畫

That's my sister. She took care of pictures,

這是我的姐姐。她在整理照片。

because I was a big collector of snapshot photography

因為我是個即興攝影的大收藏家

that I believed said a lot.

我相信數量很多

And those are some of the pictures that --

這些是部分的照片

something was good about the burnt pictures.

燒焦的照片有個好處

I didn't know. I looked at that --

我以前不知道的。我看著這張 --

I said, "Wow, is that better than the --"

我說"哇 這樣好多了~"

That's my proposal on Jimmy Doolittle. I made that movie for television.

這是我關於Jimmy Doolittle的提案 我為電視台拍的影片

It's the only copy I had. Pieces of it.

這是我唯一擁有的版本 -- 部分殘骸

Idea about women.

有關女人的創作

So I started to say, "Hey, man, you are too much!

因此我開始說 " 嘿~, 你太超過囉~"

You could cry about this." I really didn't.

你可以哭喊,"我真的沒有..."

I just instead said,

我卻會說

"I'm going to make something out of it, and maybe next year ... "

我要去完成某件事情，也許在明年

And I appreciate this moment

同時，我感謝此時此刻

to come up on this stage with so many people

能夠上台，遇到許多人

who've already given me so much solace,

給了我許多安慰

and just say to TEDsters:

而我只跟TED人說：

I'm proud of me. That I take something bad,

我以我自己為榮。我碰上了壞事

I turn it, and I'm going to make something good out of this,

我扭轉它，並且我會從中創造出好事

all these pieces.

從這些碎片中。

That's Arthur Leipzig's original photograph I loved.

這是我喜愛的Arthur Leipzig原版照片

I was a big record collector --

我是個唱片大收藏家

the records didn't make it. Boy, I tell you,

這唱片並未倖免於難。唉，我跟你說，

film burns. Film burns.

底片燒了 底片燒了

I mean, this was 16-millimeter safety film.

我是指 這是16厘米安全底片

The negatives are gone.

負片不見了

That's my father's letter to me, telling me to

這是我爸寫的信，跟我說

marry the woman I first married when I was 20.

娶個老婆吧~我第一次的婚姻在我20歲的時候

That's my daughter and me.

這是我女兒和我

She's still there. She's there this morning, actually.

她還在這裡 事實上 她今天早上就在這裡

That's my house.

這是我的房子

My family's living in the Hilton Hotel in Scotts Valley.

我家人現在住在史考特谷的希爾頓飯店

That's my wife, Heidi,

這是我的老婆 海蒂

who didn't take it as well as I did.

沒有像我一樣接受這一切

My children, Davey and Henry.

我的小孩 戴維和亨利

My son, Davey, in the hotel two nights ago.

我的兒子戴維，攝於飯店，在兩天前的晚上

So, my message to you folks,

我要給諸位的訊息是：

from my three minutes, is that I appreciate the chance

在我的三分鐘裡，我感謝有這個機會

to share this with you. I will be back. I love being at TED.

跟大家分。 我會回來的，我愛來TED這裡

I came to live it, and I am living it.

我來過我的生活，而我現在就在過我的生活

That's my view from my window outside of Santa Cruz, in Bonny Doon,

這是在Bonny Doon從我的窗戶往外望Santa Cruz的景象

just 35 miles from here.

離這裡35哩遠

Thank you everybody.

謝謝大家

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