So when I had this draft ready, I thought, it's time.

You're not going to learn any more by not doing it.

There's no more lessons over there.

I'm Sean Fennesee, Editor and Chief of the Ringer, and this is the big picture.

Have you seen Lady Bird yet?

No?

It's probably going to be on your Oscar ballot and definitely one of the year's best movies

about one of our most enduring subjects.

Those final days of adolescence.

Before we graduate from high school and decide who we're really going to be.

Lady Bird is the actress Greta Gerwig's debut as Soul writer-director, and it's a funny,

heartbreaking, and authentic movie.

The kind they say Hollywood doesn't make anymore.

Today Greta joins me to talk about how she got her story about a teenage girl living

in Sacramento, California, financed, and in theaters, and what responsibility she bears

for the Dave Matthews band revival.

So without further ado, here's Greta Gerwig.

Today is a great day, and that is because I am joined by the great Greta Gerwig, who

has a new film called Lady Bird that she wrote and directed.

Greta, thank you for coming in.

Thank you for having me.

Greta, everybody in my office that I work with loves this movie, and it's all because

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