HKCinemagic.com : You first worked with Stephen Chow in A Chinese Odyssey, and then you did several films with him. Is he the guy you get on the most with in HK and you really enjoy to work with?
Karen Mok : He's definitively somebody in the business that I respect the most. He's very talented on what he does and does it very well. For a newcomer it was a great chance to start doing movie with someone like Steven Chow. I learnt a lot on the set. It was definitively a valuable experience for me.  I worked so much with Steven Chow. He's a wonderful actor. He's incredible. I think it's even more incredible now that he's doing a lot of directing as well. There is more depth in his movies but apart from that he still keeps his comical elements, which is wonderful. I'd like very much to work with him again.

My favourite movie with Steven was God Of Cookery. Because the women I portrayed was ugly and it's quite rare to have a chance to do that sort of things. It was really amusing and Turkey [Karen in God Of Cookery] had a certain depth. For Shaolin Soccer [2001], he was the director as well. I think that now he's moving further on into directing and he has gained a kind of maturity. He made a good decision because he directs very well. I made a cameo in Shaolin Soccer [with Cecilia Cheung], I portrayed famous football player Gullit with dreadlocks and a moustache!

HKCM : Steven Chow's movies are really hilarious, but I suppose that on the set he must be very serious, mustn't he?
KM : He could be a nightmare to work with. Possibly because he's very demanding and a true perfectionist. He demands a lot from the crew as well, they are probably more aware of everything they do than in maybe other sets. He usually has a script written before shooting but he sometimes changes things on the set. He can even change all the dialogues of a sequence.