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" Ridley Scott is a cinematic master and a great man. It was a real honour working with him on 'Prometheus.' "

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" Khan let Polo be his eyes and ears. He was the first one to build a bridge between East and West. "

" People call me Benny. And as long as they put Benedict on my paycheck, I don't care. "

" I've been really pleasantly surprised by 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I'd never really heard of that gang before, that comic series before. And I think when you go into those, watching those sort of films, you watch them with no expectation as well, so you're always kind of pleasantly surprised, I think. "

" In terms of representation, television is reflecting an era that has passed. It's the wrong time; it's the wrong period. In all sorts of television, it doesn't feel like the 21st century. "

" I'd like to helm my own series. Something British. "

" Let's bang the gong and chime for more Asian superheroes. The gatekeepers can certainly open the door - there's a wealth of East Asian talent around, and that needs to be tapped into. "

" Customer freedom! Don't dictate how I want to watch my TV! "

" It's really hard because obviously people label you as a British East Asian actor. And I'm just from Salford; it's where I was born. "

" Honestly, I was watching Marvel films and was always crestfallen: Where are the super-Asians? People are looking to be represented by their heroes. "

" I feel like we are reintroducing historical figures, with the explorer Marco Polo and the grandson of Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan, the ruler of the Mongol empire, the trading place that everybody wanted to get involved in. "

" When you're a kid that's spent all your pocket money buying Spider-Man comics, and then as an adult, you're in the Marvel Universe, and you get to meet Stan Lee - it's wonderful. "

" I remember getting my mum to drive me to watch a Jackie Chan film when I was, like, eleven and trying to tell them I was fifteen. "

" In Kazahkstan, you would drive five hours outside the city to where roads sort of stop being roads, and it was just in the mountains and deathly quiet. And you could only really hear the clumping of the horses, and it was a sort of a beautiful silence. Like it enveloped you. "

" In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really. "

" Kublai noticed this uncommon perception that Marco Polo has, with the idea to explain and talk about his country so vividly that he can see it. "

" I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything. "

" We watched a lot of Hong Kong action movies in my house when I was growing up. "

" Occasionally, when you do a take, and - what I kind of sort of like is asking for a PPB - Personal Play Back. "