Paul Verhoeven foi muito influenciado por O Exterminador do Futuro e quis capturar o mesmo sentimento quando dirigiu Robocop. Eu acho que ele usou a partitura porque queria atrair o mesmo tipo de público que gostou do Exterminador do Futuro para Robocop.
De uma entrevista de Paul Verhoeven em 2002
Ambos os filmes foram distribuídos por filmes Orion. Então isso sugere que ele teve acesso fácil / barato à partitura do Terminator. Então, assistir ao trailer, e ouvir a música tema do The Terminator poderia sutilmente sugerir ao seu público-alvo "Ei, este é um filme que vai excitar você do jeito que o Exterminador fez."The Terminator surprised me, for example – I was taken aback by that. It was like ‘wow – that’s somebody really who really thought about something! And really did it, with cheap means, relatively, and made something very original. If anything influenced me when I came to the United States, it was that movie, because Robocop is not derived from Terminator, but I studied it very very well before I embarked on Robocop, because Robocop was of course still very outside my Dutch genre. I didn’t know much about that kind of film-making.
So I think The Terminator was a very good education for me – from a philosophical point of view it’s an interesting, audacious statement. Yes, it’s science-fiction, but not completely.