Growing up in the poverty-ridden 1950s, the young Yang was fond of letting his thoughts run wild. He also drew with and on anything that came to hand, filling the walls in his family's home with drawings as far as he could reach.
成長於物質貧乏的民國四十年代，楊德昌從小就喜歡胡思亂想，隨手塗鴉，只要家中搆得到的牆都被他畫滿。