"When I first knew Hou Hsiao-hsien, he was an assistant director. I met Stan Lai when he was still playing piano in a bar, and when I met Lin Huai-min, the Cloud Gate dance troupe was still at the painful stage where nobody got paid. My youth was passed here."
他神情驕傲地說：「我認識侯孝賢時他還是副導，認識賴聲川時他在餐廳彈琴，認識林懷民時雲門還在沒有人拿薪水的辛苦階段，我的青春期等於在這過的。」