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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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" 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. "

Tanya Saracho

American

Story

Think

" I was obsessed with everything about 'Outlander' - the stories, the way it looked. I thought, 'You know what? I'm going to go to Scotland, and I'm going to find my own 'Outlander.'' "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" My first time up to bat as a showrunner, what I did was hire an all-Latinx writers room. And it's a diverse Latinx writers room - we have an Afro-Dominican and Texicans and Chileans. It's diverse within its Latinidad. "

Tanya Saracho

First

Within

" 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. "

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

" 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

Trying

Story

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

Tanya Saracho

Sometimes

Cute

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

" When you're a starving artist, you make do. It didn't matter that I didn't know where my rent was coming from. "

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

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

" I am not a quiet person. "

Tanya Saracho

Quiet

I Am

" Sometimes, when I was the only person of color in a room, you had to defend all the people of color everywhere. "

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

Tanya Saracho

Generic

Latina

" 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. "

Tanya Saracho

Group

Got

" 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

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

Tanya Saracho

Stories

" 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'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV! "

Tanya Saracho

Fallen

Career

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

" 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. "

" The hierarchy plays out in the writers room, and you, as a staff writer, need to know your place. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm obsessed with accents. "

Tanya Saracho

Obsessed

Accents

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