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

" 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. "

" I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands. "

" 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. "

" I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America. "

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

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

" I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking. "

" I barely speak Spanish. "

" It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't like to talk about myself. "

Matthew Heineman

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" I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them. "

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

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

" 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. "

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

" We as a society need to become healthier. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a war reporter. "

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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. "

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

" Bombs are not going to fix ISIS. "

" '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. "