Top 30 Matthew Heineman Quotes

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Just like with America, there are many Americas, and th

Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos.
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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 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 was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.
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We as a society need to become healthier.
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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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Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.
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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 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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The contrast of ISIL’s videos – which proclaim a fully-functioning and prosperous state – with those of RBSS, which captured the dysfunction and violence of everyday life, is shocking. In a sense, it’s a war of ideas, a war of propaganda, a war being waged with cameras and computers, not just guns.
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I don’t like to talk about myself.
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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.
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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 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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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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I’m not a war reporter.
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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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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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I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.
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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.
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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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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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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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You can’t win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily.
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I don’t drink coffee.
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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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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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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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ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they’re using.
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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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