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" We have a disease care system, not a health care system. "
Matthew Heineman
Health
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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. "
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" I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material. "
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" I think in 'Escape Fire,' we really look at the military as a microcosm for the rest of America. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't like to talk about myself. "
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" ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they're using. "
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" The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less. "
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" 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. "
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" I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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? "
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" My job is to generate discussion. "
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" I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important. "
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" 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?' "
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" I want to move people to think and ponder the question of their own healthcare. And it doesn't need to be political thinking. "
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" 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.' "
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" Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting. "
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" I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them. "
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Love
" 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. "
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" I don't drink coffee. "
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" 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. "
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" Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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" Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos. "
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