Olivia Thirlby Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Any filmmaking, any film is a collaborative process. There's always a lot of people working on things together.”

“But I loved doing the physical stuff for 'Dredd.' I have to give a shout-out to the stunt team that I worked with.”

“But I would say maybe just from an actress's perspective, probably 'Woman Under the Influence' is the best movie of all time. The style of filmmaking and the performances... you don't feel like you're watching a film.”

“'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.”

“When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.”

“I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.”

“Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.”

“I'm such a homebody. I don't party. I don't drink. That may be because I got it out all out of my system before I was 18.”

“I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.”

“I trained in Shakespeare, and that's all comedy, even when it's tragedy.”