Chen, Joan Filmography

• Relative Insanity (2013)
• Closer to Water (2013)
• Shanghai Strangers (2012)
• Yit oi dou (2012)
• Haishang Meng fu (2012)
• Shanghai Stranger (2012)
• Shanghai Strangers (2012)
• Shao an wu zao (2012)
• Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
• Sui Tang yingxiong (2012)
• White Frog (2012)
• Shanghai Strangers (2012)
• Shanghai Strangers (2012)
• Erci puguang (2012)
• Seeing Red (2011)
• Kiss, His First (2011)
• The Harvest (2011)
• Seeing Red (2011)
• Xinhai geming (2011)
• Xi you ji (2010)
• Ai chu se (2010)
• Lian ai tong gao (2010)
• Tonight at Noon (2010)
• To Whom It May Concern: Ka Shen's Journey (2010)
• Mao's Last Dancer (2009)
• Ren dao zhong nian (2009)
• Ceremonia de inauguración - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008)
• Shi qi (2008)
• Er shi si cheng ji (2008)
• Er shi si cheng ji (2008)
• Tiles of Deception, Lurid Affections: The Making of 'Lust, Caution' (2008)
• The Leap Years (2008)
• Ceremonia de clausura - 56º festival internacional de cine de San Sebastián (2008)
• All God's Children Can Dance (2008)
• Ka Shen's Journey (2008)
• The Home Song Stories (2007)
• Hollywood Chinese (2007)
• Tai yang zhao chang sheng qi (2007)
• The 2007 Australian Film Institute Awards (2007)
• Se, jie (2007)
• The Home Song Stories (2007)
• Secrets from Another Place: Creating Twin Peaks (2007)
• 2006 Asian Excellence Awards (2006)
• Americanese (2006)
• Xiang ri kui (2005)
• San Sebastián 2005: Crónica de Carlos Boyero (2005)
• Avatar (2004)
• Mo li hua kai (2004)
• Saving Face (2004)
• Mo li hua kai (2004)
• Independent View (2002)
• Autumn in New York (2000)
• What's Cooking? (2000)
• Zi yu feng bao (1999)
• In a Class of His Own (1999)
• Tian yu (1998)
• Tian yu (1998)
• Tian yu (1998)
• Tian yu (1998)
• Precious Find (1996)
• Wild Side (1995)
• Wild Side (1995)
• The Hunted (1995)
• Judge Dredd (1995)
• Hong mei gui bai mei gui (1994)
• The 51st Annual Golden Globe Awards (1994)
• Hong mei gui bai mei gui (1994)
• The 66th Annual Academy Awards (1994)
• Golden Gate (1994)
• On Deadly Ground (1994)
• Heaven & Earth (1993)
• You Seng (1993)
• You Seng (1993)
• Shadow of a Stranger (1992)
• Steel Justice (1992)
• Strangers (1992)
• Turtle Beach (1992)
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)
• Wedlock (1991)
• Children of the Dragon (1991)
• The Blood of Heroes (1989)
• Pearl River Studios: China's Filmmakers (1989)
• The 60th Annual Academy Awards (1988)
• Dim Sum Take Out (1988)
• The Night Stalker (1987)
• The Last Emperor (1987)
• Tai-Pan (1986)
• E nan (1986)
• Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart (1985)
• Safe Harbor (1984)
• Peking Encounter (1981)
• Su xing (1981)
• Xiao hua (1980)
• Hai wai chi zi (1979)
• Qingchun (1977)

Chen, Joan Filmography

• Diva Viva (2008)

Famous quotes by Joan Chen:

"There are a lot of stereotypes to be broken which I think a lot of us are doing. What I do is, as soon as people try to pin me down to one kind of part, I'll play a very different kind of role, so it explodes that stereotype."

"Things had just happened to me, good things and bad things, and I took them."

"I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't."

"I went to California to study drama and study film, still with the goal of going back to China. I stayed for at least four years and then I visited China. I was a little lost. I was very homesick. I took a risk, I went back to China and realized that I have actually changed, that China as a whole wasn't what I imagined it to be."

"To be an Asian, to be a minority, not to see ourselves as always me the minority, the victim, you the dominant culture. It's a shift of paradigm. Once you see things differently, you gain power. All of a sudden there is enlightenment."

"There are only so many roles as empresses... but I've had a lot of offers to play vampires."

"If you know how to do a job very well, you keep doing it."

"All teenagers have this desire to somehow run away."

"I am not the best girlfriend or lawyer or the reporter. I am the drama-queen type. You know. So it is somehow in my style, in my upbringing, in the way I look: I need to be the dramatic one."

"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test."

"How do you explain certain physical qualities that somehow sell on screen? You're born with it... Certain people are just more watchable, and I was more watchable, but I don't think I understood acting or drama very well when I was a kid."

"I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes."

"Beauty is the result of having been through an experience all the way through to the end - therefore it has a poignancy. Beauty that is singular always comes from following an experience to the point where you can go no further."

"I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it."

"My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport."

"There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother, but I was like - I was more thinking of my own mother. I was doing my mother."

"Physical hunger and physical poverty is something I could only imagine. I've been poor when I was in China... As kids we never had to starve, but just didn't have enough meat, enough rice."

"As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director."

"The lowest budget U.S. films are ten times times better than shooting in Tibet."