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" 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. "

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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. "

Matthew Heineman

Think

Community

Society

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

" 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. "

" I don't start out making films with a certain goal in mind. "

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

Matthew Heineman

Hospital

Out

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

" I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material. "

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

" My job is to generate discussion. "

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

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

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

Matthew Heineman

Growing Up

Growing

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" We as a society need to become healthier. "

" Bombs are not going to fix ISIS. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm not a war reporter. "

Matthew Heineman

War

Reporter

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

" 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. "

" I don't drink coffee. "

" I barely speak Spanish. "

" 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. "

" 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. "