Barbara Steele

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

“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.”

“The face is the landscape of the mind.”

“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.”

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

“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.”