After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.
Barbara Steele

Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
Barbara Steele

I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
Barbara Steele

I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
Barbara Steele

I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots, implying that this was some kind of image the decided to have of me.
Barbara Steele

If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so confused.
Barbara Steele

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.
Barbara Steele

Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
Barbara Steele

The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
Barbara Steele