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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 storyteller - to make up stories and pretend to be every hero from every movie and TV show as a kid. So it was a natural progression.

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Joe Robert Cole
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: January 1
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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.
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