Brian De Palma in AFP De Palma said he was "forced to fictionalise things" to get the movie made because of the legal obstacles to showing real people and events.
Paul Haggis in Scotsman I talked to every Republican operative there is. I said look, if you were running against Corey Grace and wanted to take him down, what would you do? And they told me. They wouldn't tell a reporter. But my job is to fictionalise it in a way that... Richard North Patterson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_North_Patterson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGh8k5cDS5fDcRP1ILOxxGmhN2ngw Times Online http://www.google.com/url?q=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_reviews/article3336078.ece&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHq2Z037YRaYXHRQR9bdmbYc5PW8A Feb 8, 2008
37205 48074 fictionalise I wanted to fictionalise the story in order to ask some questions that were universal," Haggis explains.