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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

Tanya Saracho

Writing

Way

Story

" 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. "

" 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.' "

" I am equally a writer and an actor and a director. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos. "

" I feel like a lot of us have a story to tell, it's just that we don't get the platform or the access or the opportunity. I don't know how the goddesses and gods and the stars aligned. I got the opportunity, and I do have to note that a Hispanic woman gave me that opportunity. "

" I'm obsessed with accents. "

Tanya Saracho

Obsessed

Accents

" 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 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.' "

" Pleasures. I had to cut them back so I can write. And it's worked! It so has. But I am the most boring human on the planet. "

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

" 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? "

Tanya Saracho

Men

Looking

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

Tanya Saracho

Generic

Latina

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

" Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously. "

" 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. "

" The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings. "

" 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

" 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. "

" I get a lot of emails of scripts and pilots, and they want me to give feedback, and sometimes I can't because it's so many. "

Tanya Saracho

Because

Sometimes

" I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories. "

Tanya Saracho

Stories

" 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. "

" I was a playwright who was still learning the ropes when Starz took a chance on me to create and showrun 'Vida.' They nurtured and supported me during every step of the strenuous process, and that is a debt that cannot be repaid. "

" 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? "

" 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 am not a quiet person. "

Tanya Saracho

Quiet

I Am

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

" I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing. "