Här talar Paul om sina upplevelser att spela Stefan och andra parnanormala roller. I andra roller anser han att det är helt annorlunda än att spela vampyr i The Vampire Diaries.
“I think it’s really more about the human condition and you’re basing it in reality. Regardless of what the circumstances are, you need to base that in reality. You need to be a human being on Earth experiencing this. If you look at it as, ‘Oh, this is just a fantasy,’ then you’re not bringing true emotion to it. You can’t look at it in a biased way, you have to sort of objectify the whole thing.”