In 1990, Doyle cooperated with Wong Kaiwai to shoot Days of Being Wild. The trio of Wong Kaiwai, Doyle and art director William Cheung produced Ashes of Time, Chungking Express and Fallen Angel one after the other, establishing Wong as a master at "using a shattered and incomplete storytelling approach as contrast to the immutability of life."
一九九○年杜可風和香港導演王家衛合作拍攝《阿飛正傳》，王家衛、杜可風加上美術指導張叔平，三人的組合又相繼拍了《東邪西毒》、《重慶森林》和《墮落天使》。開創了王家衛電影「擅長用破碎、不完整的敘事手法對照人生無常」的風格。