As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life that you're making a movie.
Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning...
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.