As Taiwanese director Edward Yang commented after receiving an award for his film on youth, A Confucian Confusion: "If you don't want to go out into society, society isn't going to come looking for you."
「如果你不去面對社會，那麼社會也不會來面對你，」這是台灣導演楊德昌在描述青年蛻變心境的《獨立時代》獲獎後，接受訪談的想法。