I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.

Thirlby is a participant in iO Tillett Wright's Self-Evident Truths Project. In an interview with Brooklyn Magazine (with photos shot by iO) in 2011 Thirlby publicly came out as bisexual and stated why Olivia Thirlby decided to be a part of a photography project that focuses on people who are "anything but 100 percent straight. She voices promotional video excerpts from the novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AOlivia Thirlbyr which since October 2008 have regularly been posted to YouTube.

Thirlby (born October 6 1986) is an American actress best known for her roles as Leah the best friend of Ellen Page's character in the 2007 film Juno; as Natalie in The Darkest Hour (2011) and Judge Cassandra Anderson in Dredd (2012). Olivia J.