Matthew Heineman

“I'm so grateful to be part of the Sundance family.”

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

“We have a disease care system, not a health care system.”

“Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions.”

“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.”

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

“I'm not a war reporter.”

“Sundance is incredible and has been very important for my career as a filmmaker, but it's also not the only route to success. There are a ton of great movies that don't get in and go on and do wonderfully.”

“My job is to generate discussion.”

“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.”

“It's hard making people sitting in hotel rooms interesting.”

“There's this fascination in America that more is better: we want that procedure. And more is not necessarily better when it comes to health care. We as consumers really need to understand that.”

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

“'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.”

“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?'”

“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.”

“I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.”

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

“'Cartel Land' seeks to give voice to the people of Mexico who suffer grievous harm from cartel violence and government corruption.”

“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.”