When Taiwanese New Wave cinema was in full swing in the 1990s, people used to say that you couldn't throw a stone in Taipei's Hsimenting movie district without hitting a director.
在「新電影」盛行、新舊導演輩出的 1990 年代，有個比喻：西門町電影街的招牌砸下來，隨便一打就打中一名導演。