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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" When you change media, perception is changed and then policy is changed. "

" 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. "

" Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend. "

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

" 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? "

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

" 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 '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. "

" 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 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.' "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I was a playwright who was still learning the ropes when Starz took a chance on me to create and showrun 'Vida.' They nurtured and supported me during every step of the strenuous process, and that is a debt that cannot be repaid. "

" 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 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.'' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "