Performance technologies that were created by Jim Henson and the Muppets, and created the Terminator as a puppet, as a full sized organic puppet, and it was the first time that anybody had seen something that life size, using animatronics for the head and neck, to be able to operate it. We broke ground with The Terminator (1984). Nobody had ever seen anything like it. - [about the creativity for The Terminator (1984)]

It was a very important movie for me because it (Congo (1995)) was the first big gorilla movie that I had done. The next thing that I did was a movie called Instinct (1999), with Anthony Hopkins, which I think was the best gorillas I've ever seen on film, and I could never have done that movie if I had not made mistakes on Congo (1995). My mistakes, whether anybody else sees them or not, I go, you know what, this could have been more real, I could have done this differently. You learn. - [about opportunities]

I came out as an actor. I'm a painter and a sculpture and an artist. Everything about my being is creating characters that tell stories in films.

As an artist for arts sake, I have my own sculptures that I do for myself that I can spend as much time as I want on. Part of the creative challenge of this business, is to go, you know what, I've got this much money and this much time to do this job. I will do the best I can within those parameters. That's what being a professional is. That's not art for art's sake. This is the motion picture business. If you only do stuff that you have all the time and money to do, you would never work in this business.

A director like James Cameron is cursed with a vision. He knows how to do it all. He's a phenomenal artist. He draws, he imagines, he writes the entire screenplay. He knows how everything is that he wants to have done.

There's nothing more important to me in my life than my family, and nothing will ever take over. I believe that's why the work shows as well as it is because my work is not a sacrifice. My work is a joy. I'm not sacrificing my family for my work. I go in and I love what I do. I love nothing more than my family, and now grand kids. Wow, hard to believe because I'm like 36 years old!

I don't do special effects. I do characters. I do creatures.

You have to understand that rightly or wrongly, I consider myself an artist and I consider the work that we do art. In helping to tell stories by creating these characters. I came out as an actor. I am not a technician. I am techno-ignorant, but I love creating characters and telling wonderful stories. Thinking of myself as an artist doesn't allow me to think of size having to do with importance.

I do my art for art's sake on my own time. I spend as much time as I want on it because it's art for art's sake and it's not for a dollar. It's not with business parameters.

Kristanna Loken created the TX. I would like to think that the vision of what was under her skin helped her with it, but the fact of the matter is that Kristanna Loken is the TX as Robert Patrick was the T-1000. - on Terminator T-X

I have two comic books series that are out and that are developing screenplays based on them. I've got a toy company. My production company has about twenty projects in production, pre-production or in-development. I've started, as of last year, SW Digital, under my roof. Other than that, I'm not doing anything. - about his current projects

People who are afraid to go to horror movies are generally afraid their whole lives. People say to me, 'Do you have nightmares?' I never have nightmares! And I go to movies and see the most bizarre things in the world, and go... Wow that is really sick, how fun is that! And I don't have to carry it around. I think that's very healthy.