One of the best US magazine article on The Terminator is from SF Movie Land from June 1985. Interviews with James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd and the whole detailed story of bringing The Terminator to fruition.
First James Cameron tells his story. He retells the story of the nightmare in Rome with great detail, and how that nightmare evolved into a story and how he created the characters for it. The great thing about those old, forgotten interviews are the now obscure stories from the set. For example, Cameron says that they only had a small section of the can factory to shoot their climax in, and that was during work hours. In order for the loud PA not to interrupt the shooting, Cameron told one of the crew members to secretly disconnect the PA. Or there's a story he tells about how a movie crew from another film cleaned up one of the alleys after they finished and his had to dirty it up again.
Cameron also talks about his first choice for the Terminator effects - Rob Bottin, and that he was quite involved until work on Ridley Scott's Legend created a scheduling conflict, and he recommended Stan Winston. Interestingly, Cameron also comments on Brad Fiedel's soundtrack, which is so phenomenal (even thought dated, which works for the film in my opinion), and has so much to do with the movie's feel, that today it's one of those soundtracks that is completely inseparable from the movie.
"It wasn't what you would call a state of the art soundtrack, but it was sophisticated in the choices made and I think the film gets a lot of energy from the soundtrack"
There's so much more he discusses, like the guns used in the film (he never fired a gun before the movie), his past, working for Corman and more. And he is also asked about Terminator II for the first time, to which he responds that he would want to do a sequel George Lucas-style, only to produce and overlook
Next section is Gale Hurd talking, who finally confirms that Cameron called her about the story of the Terminator from Rome, and she goes into great detail about her professional career leading up to this movie and the road to get it made.
As with nearly, if not, every magazine back then, there are more photos that were never before or after published, including a photo of Jim and Arnold in the parking garage, on the first day of shooting. Funny enough, the magazine goofed and posted a photo of a much older than Hurd production manager, Donna Smith, instead of a photo of a then 29 year old Hurd.
