1954年10月23日,他出生于台湾屏东潮州,父亲是一所中学的校长,希望他子承父业也能当名教师。但少年时代的他就做起了电影梦。他读高中时,就经常到专播二轮片的全美戏院看电影,尤其是美国八大电影公司的电影,那是他学生时代最爱造访的地方。后来,为了圆他的电影梦,他忤违父愿,于1979年赴美就读伊利诺大学香槟分校戏剧系取得学士学位, On October 23, 1954, he was born in Chaozhou, Pingtung, Taiwan. His father was a principal of a high school. He hoped that he would inherit his father’s profession as a teacher. But in his youth he started a movie dream. When he was in high school, he often went to theaters across the United States to play two films, especially the movies of the eight major U.S. movie studios, the favorite places of his student life. Later, in order to round his dream movie, he was against his father’s wishes, in 1979 went to the United States to study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Drama obtained a bachelor’s degree,