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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.
Matthew Heineman
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Hospitals should be paid to keep patients out of the hospital, not for signing up more and more patients.
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Just like with America, there are many Americas, and there are many different Mexicos.
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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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Too often, we rely on other people - whether it be politicians or institutions - to effect change.
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If you're going to see 'City of Ghosts' because you want to understand everything about the Syrian conflict and how to fix it, then it's the wrong film to see.
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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 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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I was fascinated by what happens when government institutions fail and citizens take the law into their own hands.
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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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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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