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" I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

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

" 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. "

" The thing is about 'Vida,' we're telling a very simple family narrative. There's nothing fancy about it. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" Other people started taking me seriously before I took myself seriously. "

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

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

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

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

" When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was that experience. My boss was Andrew Haigh and he came from film; he had never done TV. It was his first TV show, and he was running it. And I think he was like, 'Write it, and we'll put it on.' It was lovely. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Glutton things, those are things that are dangerous for me. My grandma and my aunt died of diabetes; I'm borderline diabetic. "

" 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. "

" 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.'' "