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 More Quotes by Tanya Saracho More Quotes From Tanya Saracho We are creating culture and that affects perspective and eventually that can change legislation, i think it's not just TV we're making -- not when you're brown people. When you're brown people and you get to make a show like this, it's a political act. Tanya Saracho entertainment [ The main characters ] are not the children of immigrants, they're the grandchildren of immigrants, and that's important too, because that's American. That's being American. Tanya Saracho entertainment I was listening to them, to respect and to be there the least amount that we could, because they're right. When you go... you kind of gentrify the neighborhood a little bit. And if you're in production three months, you're a gentrifying force. I get it. Tanya Saracho entertainment And so I think I spent the rest of my time in Chicago, those 15 years, unpacking what she meant. Tanya Saracho entertainment You don't bring the taco to you, you meet it, and you turn to it. Tanya Saracho entertainment 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 youpeaceculturehistory I'm queer - and queer, to me, is not being stuck in a binary and being kind of fluid. Tanya Saracho beingmebinarykind I am so homesick every day of the week. Tanya Saracho every-dayi-amdayweek The big, radical thing that I'm trying to do is to portray Latinas as complex human beings. Tanya Saracho complexhumanbigtrying It's mountains. The air is crisp. It's peaceful. You don't get spring break in Guanajuato. Tanya Saracho mountainsyoupeacefulspring When 'Vida' got the green light, Starz sent me this picnic basket of Jamie Fraser red wine and all these 'Outlander' things that I'll never open because it's like my sacred thing. Tanya Saracho meredgreenlight What I notice a lot about millennials is that they have agency over their sexuality. Tanya Saracho overaboutmillennialssexuality 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. Tanya Saracho bestmeyouculture In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze. Tanya Saracho storywritingtryingway I always was missing that female brown queer perspective, and I think in 'Vida' we have that. A lot of things I wanted to touch on and deal with, I get to do here. Tanya Saracho thinkalwaysperspectivemissing When you get a bunch of Latinxs together, we get to handle our stories. A cultural shorthand happens. Tanya Saracho youhandletogetherhappens 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. Tanya Saracho losestoryneveryou I would like to do more millennial, Latina, complicated stories. Tanya Saracho morelikelatinacomplicated I always have something big enough to say as a playwright. It's storytelling. Tanya Saracho saysomethingalwaysenough 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. Tanya Saracho womanmestarsopportunity
