You want to find the right balance, but you have to have the Minions because people responded so much to them. We wanted to find a story that would m…

- Cinco Paul

We have never pushed it far enough to know, but we decided 47 percent was the right percentage. You can quote us on that. It's very mathematical.

- Cinco Paul

When we wrote that scene about the Sleepy Kittens where he's reading the storybook to the kids, it's like we've had to read these stupid books to our…

- Cinco Paul

I would say it was the directors. We have to give credit to the directors for this, because in the script, we just said, "Gru's Minions do this or do…

- Cinco Paul

Then we just took it and ran with it, and then just wrote as many scenes as we could with the Minions. Now we have Minions falling in love in this ne…

- Cinco Paul

In all honesty, because my name is Cinco and I grew up in Phoenix, I had a lot of exposure to Latin culture and those sorts of things, and that inspi…

- Cinco Paul

I remember when my daughter was twelve, suddenly a boy started hanging out in front of our house after school. It was this kid, Justin. My office at …

- Cinco Paul

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. A…

- Cinco Paul

But the world of Despicable Me is such a cartoony world. It is much more Looney Tunes than I would say the Pixar world or those movies. We can get aw…

- Cinco Paul