Quotes from Tanya Saracho

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.''

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

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.

Raul Castillo was my first high school boyfriend.

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.

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.

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 want to stay in Chicago.

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.

The Latinas in this industry are really supportive and stick together. America Ferrera, Gina Rodriguez, Zoe Saldana, and Salma Hayek have all reached out and have helped promote 'Vida,' and it's because they get it. They really are about opening doors. The more there are of us, the more of a movement it will be, and it won't be just tokens.

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

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.

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

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'm not literary, and I'm not academic, and I don't think like a poet, so my stuff will never be like that.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.