After a year at Chinese Culture University, his classmates in the drama department still didn't know him very well. "I often played hookey," Tsai says in embarrassment, explaining that he'd go to the National Film Archives to watch movies.
進入文化大學影劇系，大一過了，班上同學還不太認識他，蔡明亮不好意思地笑說，「常常蹺課」，不上課就去電影圖書館看電影。