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" 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
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" I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos. "
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" Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend. "
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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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" The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings. "
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" It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. "
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" The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. "
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" 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. "
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Lunch
Me
New York
" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I have 16 plays, and we don't ever do subtitles. You can't do subtitles in the theater, so I was like, 'I'm not gonna do subtitles.' You'll never lose the story. There might be a little joke that you might miss, but you'll never miss the story, even in the Spanglish of it. "
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