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I'm a hybrid.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

One of my core values is diversity of everything.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

I am a hybrid. I do independent films and also do Hollywood films - I love them both.

I always used to say hybrids would rule the world - people who have an understanding of many cultures and can relate to them with ease. And then along came Obama.

I'm an artist and an engineer, which is, increasingly, a more common kind of hybrid. But I still fall into this weird crack where people don't seem to understand me.

The more uncompromisingly specific you are the more you end up touching the bigger universal truths.

When our executive producer, Julie Plec, told me I was going to become a hybrid I got really excited. Because there's a lot of responsibility that comes with that, especially in our world of 'The Vampire Diaries' where Tyler is the first successful hybrid that's made.

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.