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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. "
Matthew Heineman
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" You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily. "
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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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" I don't start out making films with a certain goal in mind. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" My job is to generate discussion. "
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" I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material. "
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" I don't drink coffee. "
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" Hospitals should be paid to keep patients out of the hospital, not for signing up more and more patients. "
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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 barely speak Spanish. "
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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 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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" We have a disease care system, not a health care system. "
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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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" I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands. "
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" 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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" ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using. "
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" Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting. "
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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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" Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change. "
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" I went on a cross-country trip with three buddies to find out what our generation is about. I bought a video camera, started shooting, learned as I went, and ended up with 'Our Time,' a feature-length documentary about what it's like to be young in America. I was hooked. "
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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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" I don't like to talk about myself. "
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" Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries. "
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" I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them. "
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" 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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" There's this fascination in America that more is better: we want that procedure. And more is not necessarily better when it comes to health care. We as consumers really need to understand that. "
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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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