Pierre Coffin
Pierre Coffin
Pierre-Louis Padang Coffinis a French animator, film director, and voice actor. He is best known for co-directing, with Chris Renaud, the films of the Despicable Me franchise, and as the voice of the Minions...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAnimator
Date of Birth1 November 1967
CountryFrance
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I loved drawing, but I just couldn't do it to the level that some of my friends could. That pulled me up unconsciously because I wanted to be like them, and I wanted to draw.
funny kids overall please scene time work
Every time I work on a scene or I work on the overall movie, I had my kids unconsciously in mind. Is that going to please them? Is it going to be funny for them? And if it is funny for them, is it going to be funny for their friends and their friends' friends?
became comic geniuses great manage opened
There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.
imagine seeing
Seeing how dumb and stupid they often are, I just couldn't imagine minions being girls.
disney
Oh, when I was a kid, I was raised up with all the Disney classics.
country foreign kid store toy
I can't walk in a toy store in a foreign country without seeing a kid with a minion backpack.
became emotion evokes frame gag life manages throughout
How can you tell a story with one frame that, by its simplicity, manages to tell a story, a gag that evokes an emotion in you? That became my motto throughout all my life. Simplicity.