Lauren Schmidt Hissrich 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
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich 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
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich I love what happens between colleagues. It’s just another facet of family to me. That’s certainly what we explored all over ‘The West Wing’. I was an intern in my first season between my junior and senior years of college. Then, I worked on the staff for the next six years. – Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich 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
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich 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
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich I fell in love with David Bowie in ‘Labyrinth’. That’s probably the initial fantasy movie that I saw and fell in love with. – Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich For me, the biggest surprise? I had no idea how worldwide the fandom for ‘The Witcher’ was. – Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich 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
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich Nice doesn’t mean ‘naive.’ Nice doesn’t mean ‘gullible.’ In my job, one of the most important things to be is decisive and firm. – Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich 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
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich I’m not sure I’d have said, ‘I’m a fantasy viewer.’ Now I know I am, because I sat and watched ‘Game of Thrones’ and have never been more invested in a show in my life. – Lauren Schmidt Hissrich
Lauren Schmidt Hissrich 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
