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'American Sniper' is a movie. War is a grim reality and with us still.

With Vietnam, the Iraq War, so many American films about war are almost always from the American point of view. You almost never have a Middle Eastern character by name with a story.

War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.

War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.

People ask me about 'The Hurt Locker' a lot, and it's an incredible piece of filmmaking - as are 'Band of Brothers' and 'Platoon' and 'Full Metal Jacket' and 'Apocalypse Now.' But they're not necessarily true to war in a literal sense. What they are, really, are brilliant movies about Hollywood's idea of war.

War is so complex; human nature is so complex. There's no filmmaker who has ever figured it out perfectly.

Generally, studios are adverse to making films about war in the Middle East. They'd much rather make a film with a superhero or an alien or a robot.

Any time you do a movie, there are going to be war wounds that you end up getting.

War scenes are less difficult than love scenes.