What I took from this was that Gerwig was apprehensive about releasing a movie based on her vision, because of the media blowback that seems to occur whenever a woman releases something based on her own experience (Elizabeth Gilbert, Lena Dunham and Sheryl Sandberg spring to mind; I'm sure there's others). Like any…

I've read and heard other interviews with her about this movie, and elsewhere she says more explicitly what I think she may be trying to convey here: she says that because he's older than she is, he had a different perspective on her generation than she does. She says that he saw people her age more generously than…