Tanya Saracho

There is no 'generic' Latina.

— Tanya Saracho

I am not a quiet person.

— Tanya Saracho

I'm obsessed with accents.

— Tanya Saracho

I want to stay in Chicago.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

We don't have a lot of narrative on TV or film, mainstream film, of brown queers. Latina queers, I can't think of…

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

I don't think that 'Vida' is just for Latinos. I don't think 'One Day at a Time''s just for Latinos.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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…

— Tanya Saracho

When I got to 'Looking,' I didn't know that you could write stuff and they would put it on TV. That was…

— Tanya Saracho

Write about your experiences! When I moved to L.A., I didn't have any friends, and the office janitor was the person who…

— Tanya Saracho

I adore 'Broad City,' but the one Latino is queer for jokes. You see queerness of Latinos in this emasculated with an…

— Tanya Saracho

Shouldn't you be able to tell your stories from your point of view? We're dealing with that with 'Looking' where some queers…

— Tanya Saracho

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…

— Tanya Saracho

A lot of the time, because we don't have many Latinx scenarios on the landscape, not just in television or film and…

— Tanya Saracho

I feel like a lot of us have a story to tell, it's just that we don't get the platform or the…

— Tanya Saracho

It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

When I was in school, I didn't get exposed to Latino playwrights.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I…

— Tanya Saracho

Young men and women of color get told 'no' by so many people. But just listen to your inner voice. Amplify it.…

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

At Shondaland, six out of nine writers were of color - not Latinx, but I was like, 'Wait, I can do that…

— Tanya Saracho