 Carolco studio executives were nervous and concerned when the  original budget of $75 million ballooned up to $88 million and  counting. In order to keep the budget manageable, they proposed to  eliminate a few scenes particularly the opening biker bar scene  where the Terminator was introduced by having  Arnold Schwarzenegger (qv) persuading James Cameron (I) (qv) to  remove that scene. Schwarzenegger turned them down saying, "Only a  studio guy would cut a scene out like that."