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" I fell in love with Mexico. I fell in love with the people. "
Matthew Heineman
Mexico
Love
Fell
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" I landed a job at HBO, working for two years on the 'The Alzheimer's Project,' which aired in May 2009. I was fortunate to work with a great mentor, producer John Hoffman, and the amazing doc filmmaker Susan Froemke. "
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" The story is supposed to change; it's supposed to evolve. In making 'Cartel Land,' I ended up with a much, much different story than I started with. "
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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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" We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed. "
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" If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see. "
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" Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions. "
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" I think we as a society, a global community, we as governments, need to figure out ways to combat ISIS, not just as a military force but as an idea. "
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Think
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Society
" I don't start out making films with a certain goal in mind. "
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Start
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" We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and more drugs - we actually consume more prescription drugs in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined. "
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" I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in. "
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Women
Motivates
" My job is to generate discussion. "
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Discussion
Generate
" There's a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon. "
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Border
Motivations
Part
" Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change. "
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Rely
Change
Other
" 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. "
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Tools
Humble
Evil
" 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. "
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Skin
" I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them. "
Matthew Heineman
Challenge
Complicated
Love
" When you are part of a cartel, you don't have a Costco card that says, 'I'm a card-carrying member of the cartel.' "
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Part
Costco
You
" Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos. "
Matthew Heineman
America
Different
Just
" Sundance is incredible and has been very important for my career as a filmmaker, but it's also not the only route to success. There are a ton of great movies that don't get in and go on and do wonderfully. "
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Important
Success
Movies
" You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily. "
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" I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005. "
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College
" Bombs are not going to fix ISIS. "
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Going
Fix
" I don't drink coffee. "
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" I almost obsessively began reading about what was happening with the so-called Islamic State. But I couldn't find an angle on the story. "
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Almost
Happening
Reading
" The story of everyday people rising up to fight against evil to protect their families - it's a story that we've seen play out throughout history and across the world today. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" With newspapers cutting foreign bureaus and budgets shrinking for long-form, investigative journalism, documentary filmmakers are often filling a void nowadays in the media landscape with their ability to spend time with their stories and subjects. "
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Media
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" 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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Both Sides
Create