Words matter. These are the best Matthew Heineman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos.
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.
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.
I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.
We as a society need to become healthier.
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.
Bombs are not going to fix ISIS.
Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I’m as guilty as anyone of overshooting.
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.
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.
I don’t like to talk about myself.
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.
The amount of money that’s being put into long-form investigative journalism has become less and less.
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.
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.
I’m not a war reporter.
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 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?
I found out I wanted to be a filmmaker almost by accident after graduating from college in 2005.
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 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.
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.’
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.
You can’t win a battle against an idea with bombs, with guns, or militarily.
I don’t drink coffee.
Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions.
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?’
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.
ISIS is an idea. And we have to fight this idea with the same tools that they’re using.
So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.