"In Europe's Middle Ages, healing arts developed during Roman times are almost forgotten. No doctors or hospitals... only traveling barbers with little knowledge. At the same time, on the other end of the world, medical science flourishes."

"I don't want to treat warts all my life. I don't want to pull teeth and sell horse piss as a miracle tonic. I want to learn how to cure cataracts, side sickness and all other diseases."

"May the Lord have mercy upon me. Bless me in my long and dangerous journey. Let not the waves engulf me, nor sea monsters devour me. Let not bandits slit my throat, or wolves eat me alive. Let me not starve or get lost in the dark woods or cold mountains. And please let Jesus forgive me, that I shall deny my faith and soil myself with sin, to serve your creation and glory."

"Because there is nothing to be afraid of. Death is merely a threshold we must all cross... into the silence, after the final heartbeat... drifting away with our final exhalation... into eternal peace..."

"My father believed feelings and emotions were beneath a true ruler. When I was a child, to drive them from my heart, he would take me to witness executions. I watched condemned men beg for their lives. I watched the swarms of flies feasting on twitching corpses. But then, over time, I became used to the sight, the smell, and the screams. In time I felt nothing. My father had succeeded in turning death into a subject of objective study. And now I am the Shah, ruler of all we see. The king of feeling nothing."

"Tom Payne - Rob Cole/Jesse Ben Benjamin"

"Emma Rigby - Rebecca"

"Stellan Skarsgård - Barber"

"Ben Kingsley- Ibn Sina"

"Oliver Martinez - Shah Ala ad-Daula"

"Michael Marcus - Mirdin"

"Elyas M'Barek - Karim"

"Fahri Yardım - Davout Hossein"

"Miriam Margolyes as The Queen"

"David Collins as Arnie"

"Shane Dundas as Barney"

"Jimmy James Eaton as Paul"

"Heather Mitchell as The Nurse"

"Noah Taylor as Crawley"

"Cameron Ralph as Momo"

"Glenn Fraser as Kurt"

"Heather Mitchell as Thekla"

"Stavroula Mountzouris as Lara"

"Uncredited as Big Tongue"

"Uncredited as Eek"

"Sam Haft as Drago"

"[plays the guitar and singing] Little flower, little flower, I like flowers"

"[in a guard's voice] Attention!"

"[to Flip] You're a funny green bee."

"I've left the hive, Willy, and I'm never, ever coming back."

"[singing] I wanna sing songs, I wanna be free. I wanna be me, I'm Maya the Bee"

"There's an old bee saying: "Stay in the hive; stay alive"."

"There's an old bee saying: "Don't make clubs with strange bugs"."

"There's an old bee saying: "You can always count on a friend. But I guess I got that one wrong too!""

"Maya, not so fast! I forgot to tell you the most important bee saying of all: "You should always wait for Willy!""

"Get away from that bee, now!"

"Oh boy, you're so grounded. Anymore grounded in you're be a worm. (Right, Sting?)"

"Coco Jack Gillies as Maya"

"Kodi Smit-McPhee as Willy"

"Richard Roxburgh as Flip"

"Justine Clarke as Miss Cassandra"

"Jacki Weaver as Buzzlina Von Beena"

"Andy McPhee as Hank, the leader of hornets and Sting's father"

"An Unforgettable Crime, An Unbelievable Journey, An Unending Love"

"Kevork Malikyan — Hagob Nakashian"