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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" I am not a quiet person. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "