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

- 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 connect with him as a person with brow…

- 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 don't make money.

- 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 of my writing. But I had to c…

- 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, and be able to then sit down and have …

- 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 question that can't be …

- 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. Those roles and stories a…

- 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 I really feel like it prepared me to be a…

- 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 larger mo…

- Joe Robert Cole