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

" 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. "

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

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

" It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. "

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

" Nothing against resorts or Cancun or Carlos 'n Charlie's, but Guanajuato is different. If you want history, culture, and peace, it's perfect. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 want to stay in Chicago. "

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

" I'm always in the car in L.A., so I see the people I work with - and, thank God, I adore the people I work with - but it's a little lonely. "

" 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 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" Young men and women of color get told 'no' by so many people. But just listen to your inner voice. Amplify it. Make it strong! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.'' "

" 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. "

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

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