Matthew Heineman Quotes
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I'm not a war reporter.
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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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I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.
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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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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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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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Sound is the most important thing on any film, especially documentaries.
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I have faith in an audience being able to interpret complex material.
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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.
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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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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.
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I think health care is incredibly, incredibly important.
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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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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.
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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 was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.
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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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My job is to generate discussion.
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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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Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.
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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.
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'Cartel Land' seeks to give voice to the people of Mexico who suffer grievous harm from cartel violence and government corruption.
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I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.
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I fell in love with Mexico. I fell in love with the people.