In a 2006 interview, the screenwriter of the movie, Frank Pierson, said that he tried to visit Wojtowicz in prison many times to get more details about his story when he wrote the screenplay, but Wojtowicz refused each time to see him because he thought he was not paid enough money for the rights to his story.
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He sported a faint blond mustache and crude tattoos on his arms and thighs and lived mostly as a drifter, but a The New York Times article stated that he remained in contact with and occasionally lived with his mother.
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He would, however, later praise Al Pacino's portrayal of himself, and Chris Sarandon's of his wife Elizabeth Eden, as accurate.
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In 1975, John Wojtowicz wrote a letter to The New York Times expressing concern that people would believe the movie version of the events which he said was only 30% accurate.
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