It’s like, if you have a story that’s already great, then the thing that we can shift is how we’re telling that story, how we’re presenting it to the world. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
To me, I love when, as a viewer, I can be on a journey with a character, and not just hearing about something that happened in the past. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
I think that anytime you’re doing casting and you’re casting something that has a lot of existing fans you’re going to get a lot of opinions about whether it matches fans vision. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
When I was 20, I picked up and left my entire family, who were in Ohio, and moved to Los Angeles on my own. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
I didn’t have a lot of experience with adult fantasy. And that’s sort of what intersected with me and ‘The Witcher.’ Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
For me, the biggest surprise? I had no idea how worldwide the fandom for ‘The Witcher’ was. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
I feel like as a writer, I owe a huge debt of gratitude to ‘Game of Thrones’, because it really blew open the doors for fantasy on television. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
What you don’t want is just to say, ‘All showrunners need to be half women and half men,’ because then, for men and women, you could get inexperienced people doing those jobs, failing, and then not getting the opportunity to do them again. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
I think audiences are really savvy and know when we’re doing stuff to just shock them versus do stuff that really drives the story. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
Sure, there are moments that you can escape, and you can sit back and just enjoy it, but one of the most fun things about ‘The Witcher’ is that it reflects on our real world, in big thematic ways, in political ways, and in cultural ways. Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Read Quote
