"It's a complicated issue... I think for me, the whole thing is, Mildred and Dixon have a lot of work to do. They have a lot of work to do, maybe some therapy. It's an ongoing thing, you know? It's also, you know, a movie. It's a dark fairytale of sorts. It's not necessarily [true to life.] In real life, both of our characters would have probably gone to prison. That's sort of how I see it."