"How does it feel?" is one way by which to measure a movie. But if you've seen "A Complete Unknown," the Bob Dylan biopic that opened on Christmas Day, you may have left the theater singing to yourself (to the tune of "Like a Rolling Stone"): How much is reeeaaallll?

"A Complete Unknown" director James Mangold and Edward Norton (as Pete Seeger) weigh in on what's fact and what's fiction in the Bob Dylan movie.

Filmmaker James Mangold spoke with Salon about the musician's not-so-oblique songwriting and the women in his life