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" What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality. "

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" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

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

" Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend. "

" I'm obsessed with accents. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" There is no 'generic' Latina. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 just wanted to put together the best Latinx writers. I didn't care about the level.They have a passion for 'Vida' in a different way, in a higher way. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "