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" Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic. "
Tanya Saracho
Me
Diabetes
Things
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" 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. "
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Group
Got
" Putting on makeup before work is a meditative exercise. It incites me to think about how I'll tackle my day. "
Tanya Saracho
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Think
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" Shouldn't you be able to tell your stories from your point of view? We're dealing with that with 'Looking' where some queers are like, 'These guys are so boring! They don't represent me!' But no show can represent everything, so is it OK for us, in 'Looking,' to write about these three men and their world? "
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Looking
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" It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. "
Tanya Saracho
You
Mountains
Air
" No one guided me through it, but here is how it happened: I was in New York doing a play, and an agent got in touch with me and said he wanted to take me out for lunch. In the theatre, they never want to take you out for lunch, so I thought, 'Yes!' I went, I ordered steak, and he told me he thought I should write for TV. "
Tanya Saracho
Lunch
Me
New York
" I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos. "
Tanya Saracho
Just
Day
Think
" 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. "
Tanya Saracho
Think
Here
Always
" 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. "
Tanya Saracho
I Can
Atlanta
Color
" 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. "
Tanya Saracho
Looking
Think
Boss
" I feel like progress will be made in the landscape of Latino influence when we get to tell those murky, real, close-to-life narratives. "
Tanya Saracho
Progress
Influence
Feel
" 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
" When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from. "
Tanya Saracho
Coming
Know
Matter
" You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum. "
Tanya Saracho
Museum
You
Without
" There is no 'generic' Latina. "
Tanya Saracho
Generic
Latina
" I am so homesick every day of the week. "
Tanya Saracho
Day
Homesick
I Am
" When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed. "
Tanya Saracho
Change
You
Media
" I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching. "
Tanya Saracho
Understand
Pitching
TV
" I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. "
Tanya Saracho
Binary
Kind
Me
" The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place. "
Tanya Saracho
Place
You
Writer
" The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings. "
Tanya Saracho
Big
Human
Radical
" I am equally a writer and an actor and a director. "
Tanya Saracho
Equally
Actor
Director
" I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness. "
Tanya Saracho
Darkness
Humor
Interested
" Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as much trouble. "
Tanya Saracho
Better
Color
Walk
" I have been watching male programming all my life. And I'm completely interested in it. Like, I love 'Breaking Bad' and I like 'Game of Thrones.' "
Tanya Saracho
Watching
Love
Bad
" 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. "
Tanya Saracho
Whatever
Nurture
Own
" Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere. "
Tanya Saracho
Person
Color
You
" In TV, you're a 'writer for hire.' That means you're trying to guess what your boss wants and delivering that story. There's a lot of spitballing. The big thing is 'breaking story,' which means coming up with a story. You do it by episode and put it all up on a board. "
Tanya Saracho
Up
Trying
Story
" 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. "
Tanya Saracho
Family
Trying
Remember
" 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. "
Tanya Saracho
People
Aesthetic
Career
" I dress up cute sometimes to go to work, but TV writers don't! They just go however. "
Tanya Saracho
Sometimes
Cute
Up