To audiences who hope to find an answer in his works, Tsai Ming-liang responds: "There are no answers in the movies because there has never been any kind of answer in life."
而對於希望在作品中找答案的觀眾而言，蔡明亮說「電影中完全沒有答案，因為生活從來也不會有什麼答案的。」