Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.
Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.