Barbara Steele

“Fellini saw something in me that other directors didn't. He saw the melancholy.”

“The camera is a very strange and powerful tool. It can be a lover, a friend, or an enemy.”

“After Black Sunday, I was the first actress under contract to a horror film company.”

“In Italy, I was a star. In England, I was nobody. In Hollywood, I was a curiosity.”

“I never did consider myself a scream queen. I was just an actress.”

“Horror is an incredibly potent, powerful, and basic human emotion. It's a universal language.”

“I always wanted to be a painter, and I ended up a painter of a different kind.”

“I've never done a film that I was completely happy with, but that's the nature of the beast.”

“I don't watch my own films. I find it very difficult. I'm too critical of myself.”

“I think the great thing about horror films is that they can be about anything.”

“In every film, I'm waiting for the horror to start. That's my comfort zone.”

“The face is the landscape of the mind.”