A diminutive, bespectacled graduate of the electrical engineering department of Far Eastern Vocational School in Tainan, Wei has never taken a day of movie-related courses in his life. He began working in film and television production in 1993, serving as codirector to Edward Yang in Mahjong and to Chen Guofu for his movie Double Vision.
瘦小身形、戴著眼鏡的魏德聖，台南遠東工專電機科畢業，沒上過一天電影課，1993 年開始參與影視製作，擔任過導演楊德昌《麻將》、陳國富《雙瞳》的副導演。