I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. Tanya Saracho More Quotes by Tanya Saracho More Quotes From Tanya Saracho 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. Tanya Saracho step me learning chance 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. Tanya Saracho thought me you lunch 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. Tanya Saracho your story you boss You're on set more when you produce an episode, and it's long hours, but you learn so much. Tanya Saracho learn more you long I'm sad about my theatre career, but I've also fallen a bit in love with TV! Tanya Saracho career sad theatre love 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 day just think one-day I didn't understand that TV writing wasn't writing; it was pitching. Tanya Saracho tv understand pitching writing Sometimes people of color walk into these spaces that are dominated by the dominant culture, and we have to be better, not make as much trouble. Tanya Saracho walk sometimes culture people I adore 'Broad City,' but the one Latino is queer for jokes. You see queerness of Latinos in this emasculated with an accent or fez on a set '70s show. It's always like, 'Ha, ha, funny emasculated immigrants.' Tanya Saracho city see you funny 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. Tanya Saracho view media chance time
