The visual images depend entirely upon the efforts of the director on location. The novelist Kuo Cheng, who has won the screenplay prize six times for such work as God's Dice, Last Winter, and UFO Diary, agrees that "a screenplay can't exist as an independent work of art," holding that it only has meaning if it is made into a film.
曾經以《上帝的骰子》、《去年冬天》、《匪諜周記》等作品六度獲得劇本獎的小說家郭箏同意「劇本不會變成獨立作品」的說法，拍成電影才有意義。