"Before Terminator came out I began to hear from people, 'Gee, there's this script they're going to shoot that reads an awful lot like your script for Soldier. Now Soldier had been available on videocassette for many years. Demon with a Glass Hand had won all the awards but Soldier was right there in popularity."

"There is no fate but what we make for ourselves."

"Your future is in its hands."

"The thing that won't die, in the nightmare that won't end."

"In the Year of Darkness, 2029, the rulers of this planet devised the ultimate plan. They would reshape the Future by changing the Past. The plan required something that felt no pity. No pain. No fear. Something unstoppable. They created the Terminator."

"The machines rose from the ashes of the nuclear fire. Their war to exterminate mankind had raged for decades, but the final battle would not be fought in the future. It would be fought here, in our present. Tonight..."

"It came from a war-torn future to destroy the past. Its target: an ordinary woman - Sarah Connor. Her only ally: another traveler through time."

"In the 21st century, a weapon will be invented like no other. This weapon will be powerful, versatile and indestructible. It can't be reasoned with. It can't be bargained with. It will feel no pity. No remorse. No pain. No fear. It will have only one purpose: to return to the present and prevent the future. This weapon will be called...The Terminator."

"[When Sarah proceeds to crush the terminator with a hydraulic press] You're terminated, fucker!"

"Come with me if you want to live."

"I think the first film resonates so well with audiences because of the element of wish-fulfilment at its heart. We've all said to ourselves, "I wish I could go back in time and change something" or, "If only I could do that over again.""

"Bob Zemeckis and I had written three movies together, and we had always wanted to do a time-travel story. We'd just never figured out how. What turned the light on for me was coming across my dad's old high-school yearbook and thinking, "Would we have been friends if we'd been at school together?" All of us have that revelation when we understand that our parents were young once, too. That's a big moment. Then there is the message that we all have control over our destinies. I thought we could dramatise those two things."

"I cannot imagine what kind of callous moron could possibly see anything in being a victim of bullying. Maybe the idea comes from our cultural propaganda, where the bullied nerd, like Back to the Futures McFly, always fights back in the triumphant climax, becomes a stronger person for it, and goes on to be a successful patron of a nuclear family, while the bully winds up washing his car. Bullying, in our cultural propaganda, is simply a dramatic plot device which the hero overcomes. Rarely, if ever, is it represented as it really works- as something privately eating away at kids, flat and uninteresting, and never overcome."

"Harry Waters Jr. — Marvin Berry"

"Claudia Wells — Jennifer Parker"

"For you, killing your son was like running a over a dog in the street. Just something in your way."

"I can't hit a girl."

"I'll let fate decide what to do with you. If the police don't get you, the other Chinese families will. Do what you will, Father, but this time, no one will go to prison for you."

"Dang! That's some cold shit!"

"Sorry, Romeo, but you gotta die."

"Like I told your punk ass before: I ain't selling shit."

"Guns don't kill people. People kill people."

"Trust me babe, if I say there is caviar in the hills, You bring the crackers"

"Some you win;.....and Dim Sum, You Lose..."

"Where my drink, man?"

"Trish, I'm gonna find your Aaliyah-looking ass, I know where you work at!"

"Name's Maurice....Bitch!"

"Hey Dimsum, You's a real funny man."

"I can take care of myself."

"You missed me? I'm gonna miss you when my father finds out you're here."

"So, Ahkbar, tell me, is it true what they say about Hong Kong?"

"Right, right. What's your name again? Something starts with an M..."

"You're not only one who knows some shit"

"Do I know you?"

"Hey, brother... AMERICAN FOOTBALL!"

"Yeah, well dead giveaway. Besides, you drive like crap"

"I'd have to see that."

"Look, I don't know how it is in China, but in America, if a girl is kicking your ass you do not have to be a gentleman."

"Here's the deal, meatball: You let me go, I let you live."

"Great country. Free cars."