Only that way can you give your scripts real humanity. "To better understand the craft of scriptwriting, in 1990 Yang obtained a copy of the handwritten script of director Wu Nien-jen's Song of the Exile, which won the Golden Horse award for Best Original Script. Yang then proceeded to copy the script in his own hand page by page.
為了更進一步搞懂劇本，他甚至到電影資料館把當年（1990 年）吳念真得到金馬獎最佳原著劇本的《客途秋恨》手寫稿，一頁頁印下來，照抄一遍。