- Has never made a feature film (excluding TV films) that does not feature actor Kang-sheng Lee.
- Met Kang-sheng Lee, his on-screen alter ego, at a video-game arcade.
- His favorite film is François Truffaut's The 400 Blows (1959), featured in What Time Is It There? (2001), which also features Jean-Pierre Léaud in a cameo appearance.
- In 2003, was voted by UK newspaper The Guardian as #18 of the 40 Best Directors in the World.
- Retrospective at the 42nd Gijón International Film Festival, Spain. (2004)
- Member of the jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 1995
- Frequently casts Shiang-chyi Chen as his female lead.
- Retrospective at the 9th New Horizons Film Festival (2009).
- Was on his way back from a screening of Blue Velvet (1986) when he first met his longtime collaborator Kang-sheng Lee.
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