From Private Benjamin to The Intern, Nancy Meyers has championed women’s stories in Hollywood for 35 years. Why are there so few directors like her?It wasn’t until I rushed out of my interview with Nancy Meyers, five panicky minutes early, in order to express some milk in Claridge’s hotel bathroom, having given birth three weeks ago that I realised something: I wasn’t interviewing Meyers – I was a character in one of her movies.Throughout her 35-year career, Meyers – who is, by some measure, the most commercially successful female writer and director in Hollywood – has focused on what she describes as “telling women’s stories”.