I was petrified at the start of Terminator. First of all, I was working with a star, at least I thought of him as a star at the time. Arnold came out of it even more a star.
[on Sigourney Weaver] I like her very much. She`s just a natural. Not too exotic. Very hard-nosed, intelligent. And flawed too, in the sense she is flawed by emotion. People root for her in "Alien" because she`s so often coming up with the logical solutio...
[When interviewer asks if he thought he had a hit on his hands] "We had been dragged across a cheese grater, face down, for two solid years, and we thought we had the biggest money-losing film in history. Then we had our first preview screening in Minneap...
Of the three that we`re planning, it`s a question of the order, one`s historical and two are science fiction. None are ocean. - [about his future projects]
[About dropping several sequences from the finished film of the Terminator]: "We had to cut scenes I was in love with in order to save money."
