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It hurts your feelings.
Things were so bad, Schwarzenegger practically pulled the covers over his head.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images
James Cameron, his director in the highly successfulTerminatorfilms, said he phoned him shortly afterThe Last Action Heroopened.
He sounded like he was in bed crying, Cameron says.
He took it as a deep blow to his brand.
I think it really shook him.
I said, What are you gonna do?
He said, Im just gonna hang out by myself.
Thats the only time Ive ever heard him down.
I didnt want to see anyone for a week, Schwarzenegger acknowledged.
But you keep plodding along.
And my mother-in-law also said this all the time: Lets just move forward.
Its a great message.
A better time was had during the making ofThe Terminator.
Cameron and Schwarzenegger recalled the creation of one of filmdoms most classic lines.
Sometime in the middle of the shoot, were doing this police station scene, said Cameron.
The line is, Ill come back.
It wasnt meant to be like a big moment at all.
It was literally meant to be, on its face, No problem, Ill come back.
Arnold didnt say, Ill come back.
I said, Well, just say Ill be back.
Keep it simple.'
Schwarzenegger balked at that.
Cameron didnt like it.
Schwarzenegger describes the argument as, He says, Are you a writer?
