Winds of September director Tom Lin remembers how in 2004, when he was just 30 years old, he went to Ye with a script about a middle-school girl who dies during a botched abortion and ends up as a ghost. After reading it, Ye only gave one line of comments: "Too dark-it'll be hard to get the government funding!"
《九降風》導演林書宇回憶，2004 年，剛滿 30 歲的他帶著劇本找上葉如芬，劇本是關於一個國中女生未婚懷孕後墮胎冤死變成幽魂的故事，葉如芬看完後只撩下一句：「太黑色了，要過輔導金這關很難！」