Matthew Heineman Quotes
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I barely speak Spanish.
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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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I'm not a war reporter.
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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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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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So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.
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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 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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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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The amount of money that's being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.
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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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I was fascinated by what motivates men and women to fight for what they believe in.
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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' 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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My job is to generate discussion.
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Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.
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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 fell in love with Mexico. I fell in love with the people.
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We have a disease care system, not a health care system.