I’m just an actor. I’m not nearly as smart as the writers of this show. I’m only speaking for myself—I think some of the other actors get it more than me—but I’ll run into people with brilliant minds who start asking me questions about the show, and I’m like, ‘Look, whatever you’ve come up with is definitely better than anything I’ve read into it.’ I can tell you what Matt Weiner says. I can tell you what Jon Hamm thinks. But I’m just a puppet. I love my character, and Matt writes great shit for us, and he makes sure we understand it.

Mad Men’s Vincent Kartheiser (Pete Campbell) in an interview with Slate