Question: That scene with the sunflowers was phenomenal, that location must have been great!

Elijah: They built, they planted that sunflower field in advance, and they timed it out, it was fucking incredible… [laughing] They timed it out with the shooting schedule so that it would be in full blossom and our shooting schedule had to revolve around that particular shoot day. We had incredible production designers.

Question: Did Liev remind you of any other directors you've worked with, or were there certain things that were different?

Elijah: I think he was extremely unique, because he, himself, is a very unique individual. He brought his own kind of energy to the film, his neurosis, and he is actually quite hard on himself.

You know as a first time director you are sort of required to have great confidence in what your vision is and clearly know the story you want to tell and how you want to tell it. So, if you don't, if you have any insecurity, it can be very difficult and he was very clear, to the point where he worked himself into the ground and was very hard on himself, but he was fantastic.

To work with someone who is such a brilliant actor on a movie that is really specific, in terms of its performances and the characters, was wonderful. It required somebody that could really articulate the process and could articulate well to other actors because it is so reliant on those characters.

Question: The press notes had Liev describing you and Eugene as a couple of head-banging guys and listening to a lot of music on set. How much does music play a part in your life?

Elijah: We were listening to a lot of music, Eugene and I, sharing a lot of music. Music happens to be a huge part of who I am. I take music with me everywhere I go, it's a great release; it's something to listen to in the trailer; it's a way to get your mind on something else. I think it's healthy.

I am trying to start a record label, just kind of in the process of starting a really small label.

Question: Any kind of music you are particularly interested in?

Elijah: It would be non-genre specific, my taste is so varied I think it would be difficult for me to settle on one specific genre, I think I would probably get bored of it. I listen to so many different types of music, it would just be whatever I thought needed to be heard.

Question: I heard you are a Smashing Pumpkins fan.

Elijah: Yeah.

Question: Where you excited when you heard Billy Corgan might be trying to get them back together? Do you think it will even happen?

Elijah: Excited? I think I'm curious more than I am excited. I think the Pumpkins had their time and it was amazing, I hope one day they get the credit they deserve, they were incredible, but I don't think they went out very well. I don't love their last record, they didn't go out with a classic Pumpkins record, they went out with, frankly, an overproduced sort of saccharine record that sort of echoed the Pumpkins, but was way too high concept, and way too Billy Corgan ego driven.

So, I don't know, the idea of them coming back is exciting on the level of pure curiousity.

Question: Are you a fan of Corgan's new stuff?

Elijah: Not really, I think Zwan touched on old Pumpkins material, but it didn't really give us anything new. Very pop driven, kind of alright. I think that the new record is very New Order, which is fine, but I don't really want to hear Billy Corgan doing a record like that and there isn't really any fire behind it, so… I don't know, I think he is a brilliant song writer and I think he always will be, but sometimes I think he gets in the way of that.

Question: Is there anything you and Eugene bonded over? I heard you made a connection together through music.

Elijah: We traded a lot of music and I made a blues mix for him, and it was great, we had a great influence on each other. That is definitely one of the places we bonded the most. In fact recently he's been like we gotta sit down and trade again, I got some stuff I gotta give you, which is just great.

I remember having a really interesting conversation with Eugene and Liev once… [laughing]… Eugene, ohhhhhh sometimes he can be maddening. One night we were having this conversation about David Bowie and Iggy Pop and he was trying to say that… he was trying to do this thing like, "Bowie would be nobody without Iggy Pop and that Iggy was the man," and I was like, "Listen pal, I think you have it the other way around." [laughing] "Iggy Pop as a solo artist would not have ever been what he was if it hadn't been for Bowie."

So we would get in these great, total music fans, arguments frequently and it was always really funny, but I just love when he gets off on one, because it just gets to these ridiculous heights where it's just like… [laughing]