Joe Robert Cole

Historically, opportunity has been afforded to a limited pool of people, excluding people of color and women. That doesn't diminish the talent…

— Joe Robert Cole

Having gone through the [Marvel] writer program, I knew Black Panther was in the pipeline and I knew they were big fans…

— Joe Robert Cole

This problem [of historical opportunities] compounds itself by limiting the number of people in the pipeline to attain the experience to do…

— Joe Robert Cole

Black Panther is a historic opportunity to be a part of something important and special, particularly at a time when African Americans…

— Joe Robert Cole

I think you try to extrapolate from the early civilizations and cultures of the continent, kind of looking for unique ways they…

— Joe Robert Cole

I write characters focusing on them as human beings, and then you wrap them within a culture. So I think I can…

— Joe Robert Cole

I figured out I wanted to tell stories in college. I'm an only child who moved around a lot growing up, and…

— Joe Robert Cole

Being able to interact with [studio president] Kevin Feige and have him know who I am and know me as a person,…

— Joe Robert Cole

When you start talking about movies of that size, they're trying to sell globally to foreign markets. So there is an economic…

— Joe Robert Cole

Well, TV does a better job. In film, the justification has been that movies focused on stories or featuring people of color…

— Joe Robert Cole

There is a huge fan base for the Black Panther comic and for Marvel as a whole. And I think there is…

— Joe Robert Cole

had two smaller scripts that I had written with full black casts. And people loved the scripts, but nobody would fund them.…

— Joe Robert Cole