Chen has been a lifelong movie lover, but it was a film festival he attended while still in high school that really opened his eyes to the medium's possibilities. The festival's screenings of Pedro Almodovar's Todo Sobre Mi Madre and Lars von Trier's Idioterne showed him there were other ways to move audiences than Hollywood's big-budget, big-name-cast, big-effects approach to filmmaking.
陳正道從小就是影迷，但他真正的電影啟蒙出現在高中時，因緣際會在影展裡看了西班牙導演阿莫多瓦的《我的母親》與丹麥導演拉斯馮提爾的《白癡》。這個觀影經驗讓他眼界大開，發現電影還有好萊塢之外的拍攝手法，不一定都要花上超高資金、超炫特效、或超強卡司才能打動人心。