Television and Cinema Verities #115

“The ’80s was a time when studios started rethinking and looking at B movies, suddenly, as A movies. There was also the effect that women’s liberation had…Action movies became the outlet where these guys could all run to and still feel like He-Man. But specifically action movies where heroes looked the part. It was like in the ’60s when all of those bodybuilders — Reg Park, Steve Reeves, Gordon Mitchell — all went and did those Hercules movies. It was the same in the ’80s: if you had the body and could act a little bit and had some talent with fight scenes, then you were in.”

-Arnold Schwarzenegger discusses the beginnings of his film career -- the era of Conan – in a 2012 interview with Empire Magazine.