Arnold Schwarzenegger has revealed that he fought with Terminator director James Cameron over his character’s now-iconic “I’ll be back” line.
In the new Netflix series, Arnold, Cameron recalled how in the scene, the Terminator was supposed to say, “I’ll come back.” He was in a police station and the intent, in the script, was for the Terminator to explain to officers that he would simply come back another time. It “wasn’t meant to be like a big moment at all,” Cameron said (via Insider).