At first, he was a stranger to the world of film, but because he edited a newspaper supplement, he had to oversee articles dealing with drama. Therefore, in a frenzy he read books on film and art theory every day, until finally in a short period of time he became a "half expert" on those subjects.
他對影藝本是門外漢，由於編副刊常要處理有關戲劇的稿件，於是每天如癡如狂的閱讀電影和藝術的理論書，終於在短時期成為這方面的「半專家」。