Ilya Grudinin

I’m responsible for the product’s look, its price, its position on the shop’s shelf, its advertising campaign and people’s attitude to it.

I don't like the words “position”, “promote” and “creative”. I’d rather prefer “ingenious”, “clever”, “original” and “inspired”.

I won’t lie: I’d rather not work at all.

Before, my job was connected with traveling. Actually it wasn’t very profitable, it seemed that impressions you had were just enough.

I wouldn’t like my girlfriend or my future wife live waiting for me. In that period of traveling my relationships were in a mess. For more than half a year I was on business.

Every important work is stressful. But who has the most stressful one are people dealing with finances and people whose signature is the main.

If you go shopping and buy a CD “20th Century Fox”, I haven’t worked in vain.

I like coping with difficulties, taking up a challenge but I don't like to send it to myself. I'm not the one who makes his life more difficult, I set myself the task and do it.

You can’t be 100% sure of yourself.

“Pros” to smoking: to kill time, even while working…it’s pleasing. I smoke right at my working place.

I’m superstitious: I spit over the shoulder, salt and do it all with pleasure. But I did it mechanically until I was christened this year. I made up my mind to get rid of all this bullshit around me and decided to be christened. I’m grateful to my parents that whey gave me the chance to choose my own.

I realized that everything in my life went wrong. They say when a person is unchristened, the God doesn’t see him, he simply doesn't exist for Him. That’s why I decided to do it, to follow the canons.

When I was a child I read in one science fiction book about one creature that looked like just how different people saw it. Everybody found in it what he imagined. So I feel like that creature: for everybody I’m just the one they want me to be.

I really approve of plastic surgery, transplantation, stern cells’ incubation and cloning. I think people who do this should be awarded by Nobel prizes. They aren’t allowed to do something wrong because they are responsible for people’s lives. Surgeons are the high caste of medicines.

I can’t live without love. I need to feel that somebody loves me.

When you marry you shouldn’t put off having a baby.

Three “cons” to marriage? The fucking monogamy! It’s the only one, but it’s both pro and contra.

Luckily I don’t have to recruit people; otherwise there will be just slackers.

I’m a practical man, that’s why I want to live only in Moscow, I feel fine here. If you asked me to choose in terms of beauty - to stay there and die with hunger - I’d choose Brazil. Only because of beaches, clubs and Rio de Janeiro.

Watching some sport competition is like playing a computer game. A person whether may imagine himself playing in the field or whether he may just enjoy the atmosphere of watching it because he is spending time with friends, eating popcorn, crisps and drinking beer.

We all remember what it was like when we won the football match from Holland. In that time I was in Turkey, and even there it seemed like a national festival. Dutchmen wearing t-shirts with “Russia” inscriptions were making photos with Russian guys.

Curling is a very relaxing game. Actually, not so dynamic, every time you fell asleep. But one can watch it. It’s a special state of mind.

My favourite sport is playing on people’s nerves.

According to statistics a certain number of parachutes don’t open, but I don’t want be in this 1% of accidents. That is the reason why I want, but truly don’t want to jump.

I don’t take risks. I do it only when I’m 90% sure that I’ll achieve the goal.