When they ask Tsai about the meaning of the award and his motives for shooting the film, he cordially replies, "I don't know why it won, but I was confident it would." He hates talking about the meaning of his movies: "It's what the audience sees it is."
面對觀眾一再詢問得獎意義和拍片動機，總是笑臉迎人、帶著幾分親切的蔡明亮答道，「不知道為什麼會得獎，但自己有信心」，他最怕談電影的涵義，「觀眾看到什麼就是什麼」。