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" I am not a quiet person. "
Tanya Saracho
Quiet
I Am
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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 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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" You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much. "
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" Nothing against resorts or Cancun or Carlos 'n Charlie's, but Guanajuato is different. If you want history, culture, and peace, it's perfect. "
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" When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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.' "
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" I am equally a writer and an actor and a director. "
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" You can't visit Guanajuato without going to the mummy museum. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I had never heard this term before - gente-fication - which is also happening in Portland, Houston; it's happening in a lot of cities. It's upwardly mobile Latinx who want to come back to their neighborhoods where they grew up - or it's Latinx moving to L.A. and looking for a Latinx neighborhood to live or open a business. "
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" 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. "
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" What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality. "
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" When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed. "
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" The fact that I have a show on Starz, it's crazy. It's insane. "
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" I dress up cute sometimes to go to work, but TV writers don't! They just go however. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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