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And that's latin representation in hollywood. i know you all come from different aspects of it, which is so great. so let's talk about representation. how has it been, being a latin woman, writer, director, in the biz? - it was funny. when i was a little kid, i used to watch tv and movies and everything, and i thought, "maybe they just don't know we exist." - right. - right? like, maybe they just haven't heard of us. and then i realized that it wasn't necessarily they didn't know about us, it just-- maybe they didn't know how to tell our stories, right? and so, that's what i have spent my care...

And since coming on the scene, he's helped reenvision what working in the film industry can be. so i wanna understand how you started, man, because you're really, truly, one of the pioneers who brought independent films to everyone, and allowed everyone to believe that they could possibly make an independent film. you were one of those guys. - it's just something i always loved to do. i love being creative. i wasn't very good in school. i'd be sitting in the back of the class making flip cartoon movies in the spanish-english dictionaries. [john chuckles] and people would laugh. i'd go, "god, i...

- i wanna know what he's saying. - you'll find out as soon as i leave. [studio audience laughter] - he made us believe that maybe one day, we too could crack that code. - so in the summer of, like, '75, '76, one of my friends started to drive and almost every day we would go to hollywood boulevard, and we'd stop and we'd get out, and we'd walk up and down the hollywood walk of fame, then you'd go to the grauman's chinese. - yeah, yeah. - and then, you know, i would see george burns' star, and i would be like-- i would imagine my name, you know, george lopez and george burns. - right, so close....

And we as an audience, we're a hard audience." - yeah, yeah. - because there's been such a starvation for representation that when one thing exists, we're like, "it better represent all of us." - no, yeah. because all we have is one show! - one! he's like, "so what do you think would change it?" and i said, "i'll tell you what i think would change it. "for me, its i'm gonna tell one story "about one cuban american woman that lives in los angeles "that's super, super, super specific to me and my experience." - yes, yes. - he's like, "let's do that." so i was like, "okay." so i walked out of the...

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