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" Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos. "
Matthew Heineman
America
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Just
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" So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days. "
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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? "
Matthew Heineman
Care
Need
Medical
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Void
Media
Time
" 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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Everyone
Health
Race
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Almost
Happening
Reading
" 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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Evil
Today
People
" 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
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Story
Both Sides
Create
" Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change. "
Matthew Heineman
Rely
Change
Other
" I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them. "
Matthew Heineman
Challenge
Complicated
Love
" 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
Mirror
Together
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Two
Amazing
Work
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Health
Better
Care
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Emotion
City
Focus
" It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting. "
Matthew Heineman
People
Interesting
Hotel
" You can't win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily. "
Matthew Heineman
Battle
Idea
Win
" I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important. "
Matthew Heineman
Important
Think
Care
" I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America. "
Matthew Heineman
Fire
Rest
America
" Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting. "
Matthew Heineman
Up
Growing Up
Growing
" I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands. "
Matthew Heineman
Government
Fail
Own
" I don't drink coffee. "
Matthew Heineman
Drink Coffee
Coffee
Drink
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Quality
Tests
Rest
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
America
Better
Care
" I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking. "
Matthew Heineman
Thinking
Think
Political
" We have a disease care system, not a health care system. "
Matthew Heineman
Health
Disease
Care
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Story
Land
Different
" The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less. "
Matthew Heineman
Money
Become
Being
" I don't start out making films with a certain goal in mind. "
Matthew Heineman
Certain
Start
Out
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Care
Back
Health
" 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. "
Matthew Heineman
Need
Way
Transition