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" 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. "

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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. "

Matthew Heineman

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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. "

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

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

" We as a society need to become healthier. "

" 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. "

" Hospitals should be paid to keep patients out of the hospital, not for signing up more and more patients. "

Matthew Heineman

Hospital

Out

" I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family. "

" The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less. "

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

Matthew Heineman

Growing Up

Growing

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005. "

" Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't like to talk about myself. "

Matthew Heineman

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bombs are not going to fix ISIS. "

" 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. "