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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 am so homesick every day of the week. "

" I want to stay in Chicago. "

" Any time you have to move in two days, it's crazy. It's like, 'Who am I going to get to take care of my cat? "

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" Spanglish is very natural. It's however it comes out. But there are a few patterns that all of us, especially Mexican-American writers, just noticed in how we utilized Spanglish. It comes out of necessity when you can't find the next word. You go to whatever language will serve you best. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I am not a quiet person. "

" 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 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 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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