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" 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. "

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'm not a war reporter. "

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

" I barely speak Spanish. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My job is to generate discussion. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

Matthew Heineman

Growing Up

Growing

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

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

" 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.' "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" '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 as a society need to become healthier. "

" I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in. "

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

Matthew Heineman

Talk

Myself

" 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. "

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