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" For 'City of Ghosts,' I really didn't speak any Arabic. It obviously made it more difficult, but I also found it to be an advantage while shooting. It allowed me to focus on the emotion of the scene as opposed to just chasing dialogue. "

Matthew Heineman

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" The contrast of ISIL's videos - which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state - with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it's a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns. "

" I barely speak Spanish. "

" My job is to generate discussion. "

" Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it's divided our country. "

" 'Cartel Land' explores what happens when - in a Mexican society without order, law or security - vendettas, terror, and corruption go hand in hand with the pursuit of a better world. "

" I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate to people, how you connect with people, and the open-mindedness with which you approach the subject. That's to me what matters when you are making a film, not who you are or where you are from. "

" So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days. "

" I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands. "

" I think one of the major themes in 'Escape Fire,' really, if you break it down, is that huge institutions, the military, the Safeway Corporation and others, are being forced to change. "

" My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. Immediately, when I read it, I knew I wanted to create a parallel story about vigilantes on both sides of the border. "

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" Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting. "

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" I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them. "

" I'm not a war reporter. "

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" In my humble opinion, propaganda is one of the most evil tools humans have used against humans throughout history to justify wars, justify atrocities, justify evil. ISIS has taken it to a new extreme. "

" I don't like to talk about myself. "

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" In the Affordable Care Act, Congress provided access to medical care for nearly 30 million uninsured Americans. Access is critically important, but offering access to an already broken system won't provide a lasting cure. We need to ask and answer the underlying question: Access to what? "

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" I fell in love with Mexico. I fell in love with the people. "

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