At a roundtable discussion between cinema directors from Taiwan and mainland China that was held in Taipei in June 2009, Feng Xiaogang said that ever since the making of A World without Thieves in 2004, Chen had worked together with him on all his scripts, helped him to find his main filming and artistic crew members, and found the right cast members who could be hired within budget.
2009 年 6 月馮小剛在台北的「兩岸導演座談會」上說，從 2004 年《天下無賊》開始，他的片子都是陳國富跟他一起弄劇本，幫他找攝影、美術等主創人員，在預算內找到最合適的演員等。