At the end of drama school I made a contract with myself: I'd try acting for five years. I was 26. I had already spent eight years working in restaurants and gas stations. So I had seen enough small businesses to understand that that's what acting is: a small business.

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude which our eye perceives which art reproduces and which becomes for everyone the image of a man who runs.

So now cut to ten years later and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible.