- Arnold Schwarzenegger: She was about to destroy the Terminator, and her son said "No wait, you can't do that".
- Michael Biehn: I thought it would remind people who had seen the first movie, uh, what the first movie was all about or what I thought it was all about, which was a love story.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger: They were great scenes but they had to go because the movie had to be cut down to around 2 hours and 15 minutes or so.
- Edward Furlong: In the movie, Arnold says that he learns uh, how to be human by just watching human actions. But, really in the script, there's more detail.
- James Cameron: One of the things i always feel strongly about in the sequel is that it shouldn't require you to have seen the first film, it should be self-contained.