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" I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands. "
Matthew Heineman
Government
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Own
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" 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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" '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. "
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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 don't like to talk about myself. "
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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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Never
Land
" The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less. "
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Become
Being
" I fell in love with Mexico. I fell in love with the people. "
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" We as a society need to become healthier. "
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Become
" 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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" Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change. "
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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 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?' "
Matthew Heineman
Health
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Together
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
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Salary
Working
" What Americans desperately need is a way to transition from the current system - which is fragmented and focuses on high-cost, high-tech interventions after illness strikes - to a modern system that delivers coordinated, high-touch, lower-cost, patient-centered care with an emphasis on primary care and prevention. "
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" I barely speak Spanish. "
Matthew Heineman
Barely
Spanish
Speak
" It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting. "
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People
Interesting
Hotel
" 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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Think
Change
Down
" 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
" Bombs are not going to fix ISIS. "
Matthew Heineman
Bombs
Going
Fix
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Conflict
Understand
You
" 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
Think
Community
Society
" 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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War
Violence
Life
" 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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Void
Media
Time
" My favorite way of making films - and what has allowed me to get key scenes in 'Cartel Land' and 'City of Ghosts' - has been when I've been able to operate alone. "
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Way
Ghosts
Key
" 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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Care
Need
Medical
" I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking. "
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Thinking
Think
Political
" I'm not a war reporter. "
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War
Reporter
" I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005. "
Matthew Heineman
Accident
Almost
College
" 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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Quality
Tests
Rest
" Hospitals should be paid to keep patients out of the hospital, not for signing up more and more patients. "
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Up
Hospital
Out