Noted cinema director Ang Lee wrote in his book Ten-Year Slumber: Cinema Dreams: "A Chinese father is a source of pressure, sense of responsibility, self-respect, and honor ...
李安在《十年一覺電影夢》書中坦言：「中國父親是壓力、責任感及自尊、榮譽的來源，是過去封建父系社會的一個文化代表。」