Yang continues to pursue his filmmaking dreams, despite the unfavorable conditions. In spite of a lack of resources, he created The Trigger and Taipei 21 within a period of three years and won Best Picture at the Asia Pacific Film Festival. This not only bore witness to his directing genius, it gave him encouragement and confidence to stay the course.
即使大環境不佳，楊順清仍堅持對電影的夢想，在資源匱乏下，三年內完成了《扣扳機》和《台北二一》兩部作品，這次拿下亞太影展最佳影片，不僅是對他編導才華的肯定，更是一種精神鼓勵，讓他信心十足的往前走。