“My dad sent me a clipping about the self-defence militias in Mexico. I...” — Matthew Heineman Quote

“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.”

“Hospitals should be paid to keep patients out of the hospital, not for signing up more and more patients.”

“I landed a job at HBO, working for two years on the 'The Alzheimer's Project,' which aired in May 2009. I was fortunate to work with a great mentor, producer John Hoffman, and the amazing doc filmmaker Susan Froemke.”

“We as a society need to become healthier.”

“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.”

“So much of the access that I was able to gain with the Autodefensas was over months, not days.”

“When you have a system that increases border security funding by about 300 percent, and it only increases funding for immigration courts by 70 percent, you have a disaster.”

“I believe that the great majority of people coming here illegally have no other option. They want to provide for their family. But we need to control our border.”

“If the president wanted to fix our broken immigration system, he could start by securing the border and enforcing the laws already passed by Congress.”

“Our border security is laughable.”

“The numbers of terrorists that we have caught coming - we actually don't catch them coming across the border. We usually catch them in some other context.”

“Of course, there's no reason that Paris should have decent Mexican food. It's a silly expectation - there's a Mexican population in Paris, but they're not exactly traveling there from across the border. Paris also doesn't do Peruvian all that well, either.”