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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. "

Matthew Heineman

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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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" '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. "

" 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. "

" You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily. "

" I don't start out making films with a certain goal in mind. "

" We have a disease care system, not a health care system. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There's a wide range of motivations that led folks to patrol the border, to be part of Arizona Border Recon. "

" Bombs are not going to fix ISIS. "

" I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important. "

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

Matthew Heineman

Growing Up

Growing

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change. "

" 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?' "

" Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos. "

" 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.' "

" My job is to generate discussion. "

" ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using. "