1. Manson (1973)
“I like him, he’s a good man, he is not a racist, I can tell you that. He’s a good person. He actually gets a very unfair press in that regard.”
2. Star Wars trilogy (1977–1983)
“I will tell you something. I watched those very closely. Much more closely than you people watched it. And you have, you had a group on one side that was bad. And you had a group on the other side that was also very violent. And nobody wants to say that. But I’ll say it right now.
“You had a group, you had a group on the other side that came charging in without a permit and they were very, very violent.”
3. Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
“You had some very bad people in that group. But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides. You had people in that group, excuse me, excuse me, I saw the same pictures as you did.”
4. Red Dawn (1984)
“You had a group on one side and you had a group on the other and they came at each other with clubs and it was vicious and it was horrible and it was a horrible thing to watch.”
5. Amistad (1997)
“I believe wages now, because the economy is doing so well with respect to employment and unemployment, I believe wages will start to go up. I think that will have a tremendously positive impact on race relations.”
6. American History X (1998)
“Not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me. Not all of those people were white supremacists, by any stretch.”