The trend to developing new talent also affected Taiwan's largest film studio-Central Motion Picture Studios. At the prompting of Hsiao Ye and Wu Nien-jen, Ming Chi, who was then president of Central, allowed Yang, Ko Yi-cheng, Tao Te-cheng and Chang Yi to collectively direct In Our Time. Yang's direction of the "Hope" segment caught the attention of critics.
栽培新人的風氣也影響到電影界龍頭﹘ ﹘中央電影公司，當時總經理明驥在小野、吳念真等人的敦促下，放手讓楊德昌、柯一正、陶德辰、張毅四位新導演合導一部《光陰的故事》，楊德昌執導的「指望」一段，備受影壇矚目。