Arnold Schwarzenegger remembers feuding with James Cameron over changing the famous line ‘I’ll be back’ in The Terminator.
Speaking to his Netflix doc, Arnold, the Austrian actor, said he wasn’t sold on the classic line: “I’ll be back.”
“In the middle of shooting, we’re doing this police station scene. The line is, ‘I’ll be back.’ It wasn’t meant to be a big moment at all,” said the Avatar director, who was attached as a co-writer with Gale Ann Hurd.
“It literally meant, to his face, ‘No problem, I’ll be back.’ For some reason, Arnold didn’t say, ‘I’ll be back.’ I said, ‘Okay, just say I’ll be back.’ Keep it simple.'”
But, the Expandables star tried to change the line to “I’ll be back” to sound more “machine-like”.
However, the Oscar winner berated the muscle man for following the script.
“He says, ‘Are you a writer?'” added. “And I said, ‘No,’ and he said, ‘Well, don’t tell me how to write ***.’
Furthermore, the actor also admitted that Cameron was “absolutely right”.
“I think, in the history of motion pictures, it became the most quoted movie line. So it just shows you who was right and who was wrong,” he said.
