Question: Is a blockbuster film something you ever look for or is it always the material alone you are drawn to?

Elijah: Always the material. Obviously it would be nice to make money, but at the same time to compromise any kind of belief in what I love or do, I can't really see myself doing that. You know? I would rather not work and do something else than be a part of films I don't believe in, or blockbusters, but there are those films that come around, Lord of the Rings is one of them, where it actually manages to service both needs. It happens to be something that is both financially successful and massive on one level, and also artistically gratifying and incredibly written and beautiful on the other level, but those are just really hard to come by.

Small films tend to be what I am attracted to, but that just happens to be what I respond to.

Question: How did you manage to go from being a child actor to an adult actor; did you strategize?

Elijah: I didn't, the one thing that comes to mind is that I was always aware, especially at like 15 and 16, of trying to continue to take roles that would allow me to grow into adult roles. In the evolution of my career the one thing that I can say has been, at least one thought in my head in regards to moving forward as an actor, has always been to find roles that would help progress my age.

Question: Would you be open to doing television again?

Elijah: I am not opposed to it.

Question: You should be on "Lost."

Elijah: To do a cameo in "Lost," I would love to do that, it would be a lot of fun.

Television is getting really interesting. I think, I hope we are in a phase now where people are getting kind of tired of boring same old, same old fluff. I think people are tired of their intelligence being insulted to a certain degree and there seems to be more and more shows that are really well written with actors from films being a part of them and it's definitely becoming an interesting trend. It's exciting because there are some really interesting shows on television now, and even extending off of cable I think networks are starting to feel like well cable's the most popular so we have to up our game as well, which is exciting because it's definitely creating more opportunities.

I am a huge fan of "Six Feet Under," I love that show, to have been a part of that would have been really great.

Question: Was the set of Illuminated as lively as it seems it would have been just based on watching the movie? It looks like you guys would have had so much fun.

Elijah: It was quite hilarious at times, it was a lot of fun to make this film, but it was difficult too. We had a really ambitious script and a lot of the more ambitious material didn't make the film; a lot of dream sequences, a lot of fantasy sequences both from Jonathan's perspective and Alex's (Hutz) perspective including one from the dog as well, which is very funny, all of which will be on the DVD. There were a lot of these sequences, and the film, as well, is relatively ambitious given the schedule that we had.

So as fun as it was, and it was a blast, it was hard, it was really hard because we didn't have a lot of time.

Question: How long was the shoot?

Elijah: I was in Prague for about two months, it was about a month and a half of filming.

Question: How much traveling was involved? Did you do as much traveling as you do in the movie?

Elijah: We did, it was all in the countryside and outdoors. It was all like an hour outside of Prague.