Alan: Back when you were doing M.A.S.H. and The Long Goodbye and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice you were to me anyway, watching you were as hip as they came. Just wondering now that you played the father on Friends you were surrounded by George Clooney and all these young actors, do you feel hip again? I know that kind of thing...

Elliot Gould: Oh, no, I don't think that way. I have to be careful not to condescend and not to try to be smart and just to be accepting and also to step aside sometimes and let the kids play or let the kids be smart or something and be really humble and modest and they're very, very respectful to me.

Alan: What responsibility do you feel to society? I always felt one thing we can do is leave the world better for the generation that follows that we found it.

Elliot Gould: Well, after all there are other cultures where the aged, the elderly are really are revered, are respected. Where are we rushing, where do we think we're going to go?  I mean the earth doesn't need people, people need the earth. Our ego and vanity and craziness... I believe that the human quotient has always been out of control, but we had this great cushion of nature and now we're eliminating the nature so who knows what's in front of us and you know there is a lot of work to do so those of us who won't give up and are able to contribute our heart and soul I mean that's people I want to know - that's my friends.