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" Any time you have to move in two days, it's crazy. It's like, 'Who am I going to get to take care of my cat? "

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" To me, 'Kita y Fernanda' is very much an American story, and I know some people are going to think it's a Latina story, but it's about shifting people's paradigms and views of what it is to be American. "

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

" I'm obsessed with accents. "

" We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of that many. "

" For so long, the narrative - I'm speaking for Latinx - we've been invisible, the ones cleaning and taking care of your kids and doing your lawns. "

" I adore 'Broad City,' but the one Latino is queer for jokes. You see queerness of Latinos in this emasculated with an accent or fez on a set '70s show. It's always like, 'Ha, ha, funny emasculated immigrants.' "

" Putting on makeup before work is a meditative exercise. It incites me to think about how I'll tackle my day. "

" So many times, shows say they're set somewhere - like in Chicago, 'The Good Wife' - but it doesn't feel like Chicago. "

" When 'Vida' got the green light, Starz sent me this picnic basket of Jamie Fraser red wine and all these 'Outlander' things that I'll never open because it's like my sacred thing. "

" I went in for a meeting with Marta Fernandez, and she said, 'We are looking for a female millennial show. Have you heard of the term 'chipster'?' And I was like, 'Of course - Chicana hipster.' "

" When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was that experience. My boss was Andrew Haigh and he came from film; he had never done TV. It was his first TV show, and he was running it. And I think he was like, 'Write it, and we'll put it on.' It was lovely. "

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

" When I got to Scotland, I signed up on a site called Meetup. It's like these group things you can do - a poetry reading, a hike, whatever. "

" I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness. "

" I hope to see more Latino stories on television - not just on a personal level, but for us in the industry. We shouldn't just exist when a show is attempting to be diverse. We have good stories, and we are worth it. "

" It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 remember 'Resurrection Boulevard.' It was on for such a brief moment, but they were trying to do a good, Latino, Mexican-American family with a patriarch. "

" Nothing against resorts or Cancun or Carlos 'n Charlie's, but Guanajuato is different. If you want history, culture, and peace, it's perfect. "

" 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. "

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

" I know people seek me out to be their mentor, and I've chosen a few people I'm really invested in and nurturing their career and their aesthetic and just their person. "

" 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. "

" When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens. "

" I'm always writing. There's no stopping. It's just that you can't see it sometimes. "

" I want to stay in Chicago. "

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "