Everyone laid off Terminator Salvation after a behind-the-scenes featurette and concept art leaked on the internet two weeks ago, now some quotes from McG have started to disseminate. Will Arnold show up in the film? What’s the future of Bale? Is that rumored ending the real deal or not?

Here’s what we know from Total Film:

McG on the ending: It isn’t the ending (thank goodness) but the geeks didn’t pluck it from the clear blue Skynet, either. “That is not the ending. John Connor is not the machine. We did discuss that idea, but that is not the ending, I can say that right now.”

Did James Cameron give his “blessing?”:  “I did go to see James Cameron. He didn’t give us his blessing, but he didn’t shit all over our movie. When Jim was making Alien, he was following the great Ridley Scott, so he knows how we feel.”

On signing Christian Bale after he said he’d never do another franchise: “I met Christian when he was shooting The Dark Knight. He told me to fuck right off, he didn’t want to do it. He said, ‘Write it so that it could be read cold on stage and I’ll think about doing it.’”

On Arnold Schwarzenegger appearing in the film: “We’re trying to synthesise a human character with a CGI character and that may or may not have something to do with the T800,” McG told us with a smile.

The process isn’t without its problems, though. McG isn’t happy with ILM’s work so far… “At the moment it’s not good enough,” he said. “And we’re running out of time.”