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Sometimes I have a desire to control what I do a little bit, especially when I do a smaller movie. But basically, my impulses are the impulses of a child. I like being the thing itself. I don`t like thinking about it. And that doesn`t mean I`m not analytical or that I`m anti-intellectual. I`m not trying to say I`m a totally intuitive kind of guy. It`s just that my real pleasure, where I feel vital and everything drops away, is when I`m in the middle of doing it, and I look for that opportunity untainted by other responsibilities. But I`m getting too serious. When I try to explain what I do, I get a little bit disgusted with myself because I come off too earnest. In the simplest terms, it`s a pleasure to borrow someone else`s body and someone else`s life. That`s the craft, and it`s a bit like voodoo, because you don`t know exactly how you do it. - On his acting style.

- Willem Dafoe

My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.

- Wyclef Jean

Haiti itself was also photographed, some of the streets, some of the mountains, rivers, streams, etc. were photographed before talking with me about how I felt about Haiti. Then the camera went to our voodoo temple and saw a serious ceremony, a real ceremony.

- Katherine Dunham

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.

- Dalton Trumbo

They basically ask their engineers to volunteer some probability figures, then they take the average. This is not science. This is voodoo,

- Michio Kaku

I`d call it a new version of voodoo economics, but I`m afraid that would give witch doctors a bad name.

- Alex Ramirez

The paining that I painted is a spell to revitalize New Orleans, since New Orleans is home to mysticism and voodoo in the United States.

- Anthony Karydakis