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" 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. "

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" 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. "

Tanya Saracho

Red

Wine

Green

" 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. "

" 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

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

" I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. "

Tanya Saracho

Binary

Kind

" White, older showrunners told me, 'Why do you want to hire an all-Latinx writers room? Hire who's best for the show - don't get caught up in that.' And I was like, 'No.' For such an intimate show about the details of a culture? You can't fake that. The room needs to reflect the makeup of the show. "

" 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 not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that. "

" 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.' "

" I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching. "

Tanya Saracho

Understand

Pitching

" 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 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who I saw the most. He would always come in at around 10:00 P.M., and I would still be at my desk, so I wrote a play about a first-year TV writer and the friendship that she developed with the janitor. Our stories matter. "

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

Tanya Saracho

Stories

" 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 always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling. "

" 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.' "

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

" I am so homesick every day of the week. "

" Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend. "

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

" I never wanted to be married. That was never a thing for me. "

Tanya Saracho

Never

Married

" The fact that I have a show on Starz, it's crazy. It's insane. "