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" I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material. "
Matthew Heineman
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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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" ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using. "
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" It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting. "
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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. "
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" I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America. "
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" We as a society need to become healthier. "
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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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" Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting. "
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" It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?' "
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" You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily. "
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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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" 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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" I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them. "
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" We have this fascination that more is better, and we - what we learned was more isn't better ; that more care can actually hurt you. That fascination with the quick fix is often hurting us. One-third of health-care spending doesn't even improve health care. "
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" At medical centers such as the Cleveland Clinic and Kaiser Permanente, teams of doctors and nurses provide coordinated care while working for salary instead of getting paid for every procedure. "
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" The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less. "
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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. "
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