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

The Navy credits me with more kills as a sniper than any other American service member, past or present.

I actually think every war movie is an antiwar movie in its own way - with the exception of some of the propaganda movies.

People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.

In the re-creation of combat situations, and this is coming from a director who's never been in one, being mindful of what these veterans have actually gone through, you find that the biggest concern is that you don't look at war as a geopolitical endeavor.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

The tactic of leading people into... a war that doesn't make any sense by telling them they are under attack, and if they raise any objection they're unpatriotic, is a very old tactic. And it doesn't intimidate me.

It is not rifles but people who triumph, and the conclusion from all the wars is that we need better people, not better rifles - to win wars, and mainly to avoid them.

I believe that this is a different war than America has ever fought in the past. It is a non-conventional war. It means that you've got to use every tool you've got available to you.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.