Tanya Saracho

No one guided me through it, but here is how it happened: I was in New York doing a play, and an…

— Tanya Saracho

I had never heard this term before - gente-fication - which is also happening in Portland, Houston; it's happening in a lot…

— 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 was obsessed with everything about 'Outlander' - the stories, the way it looked. I thought, 'You know what? I'm going to…

— 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

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

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

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

— 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

Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend.

— Tanya Saracho

I hope to see more Latino stories on television - not just on a personal level, but for us in the industry.…

— Tanya Saracho

I want to stay in Chicago.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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

— Tanya Saracho

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…

— 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

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

— Tanya Saracho

White, older showrunners told me, 'Why do you want to hire an all-Latinx writers room? Hire who's best for the show -…

— Tanya Saracho

I went in for a meeting with Marta Fernandez, and she said, 'We are looking for a female millennial show. Have you…

— 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

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

I'm obsessed with accents.

— Tanya Saracho

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

— 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

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