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" A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and other media, we haven't gotten the chance to tell our story from our point of view. "

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" When you work in a writers room for a showrunner, you serve that story, and you serve that showrunner. I don't think it should be called writing; I think it should be called rendering content. Because you are there to render the content that is agreed upon in the room, and you're serving the voice of the main storyteller, which is the showrunner. "

Tanya Saracho

Voice

Think

Writing

" The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. "

" I just wanted to put together the best Latinx writers. I didn't care about the level.They have a passion for 'Vida' in a different way, in a higher way. "

" You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum. "

" I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. "

Tanya Saracho

Binary

Kind

" When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from. "

" People in L.A. think I'm insane to go back to Chicago during the winter. It's because I love my apartment and fleece leggings and my friends. "

Tanya Saracho

Friends

Love

" Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend. "

" I'm always in the car in L.A., so I see the people I work with - and, thank God, I adore the people I work with - but it's a little lonely. "

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

Tanya Saracho

Generic

Latina

" Young men and women of color get told 'no' by so many people. But just listen to your inner voice. Amplify it. Make it strong! "

" Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere. "

" I'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. "

" Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic. "

Tanya Saracho

Diabetes

Things

" I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here. "

" I dress up cute sometimes to go to work, but TV writers don't! They just go however. "

Tanya Saracho

Sometimes

Cute

" I'm very conscious of who I work with. Because I want to develop and nurture my writers so they can have their own shows, take on whatever is next for them. "

" At Shondaland, six out of nine writers were of color - not Latinx, but I was like, 'Wait, I can do that but for the whole room?' 'Atlanta' had done that, then I can do that. "

" I was obsessed with everything about 'Outlander' - the stories, the way it looked. I thought, 'You know what? I'm going to go to Scotland, and I'm going to find my own 'Outlander.'' "

" Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best. "

" I never wanted to be married. That was never a thing for me. "

Tanya Saracho

Never

Married

" I want to stay in Chicago. "

" When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed. "

" The Latinas in this industry are really supportive and stick together. America Ferrera, Gina Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, and Salma Hayek have all reached out and have helped promote 'Vida,' and it's because they get it. They really are about opening doors. The more there are of us, the more of a movement it will be, and it won't be just tokens. "

" When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights. "

" You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much. "

" White, older showrunners told me, 'Why do you want to hire an all-Latinx writers room? Hire who's best for the show - don't get caught up in that.' And I was like, 'No.' For such an intimate show about the details of a culture? You can't fake that. The room needs to reflect the makeup of the show. "

" In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze. "

" I am so homesick every day of the week. "

" I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching. "

Tanya Saracho

Understand

Pitching