Screenwriting 101: Gore Verbinski
“It’s very important to me that when you watch the movie, any character is a door, and I want to it to feel like if you open that door you’d see a whole movie about that character. So wrinkled hands, dust under the finger nails, they have to enter the scene and promise a history that they are coming from some place and going somewhere; they’ve been to Hell and back. So they’re dirty and grungy, but I think that makes it just more flavorful.”
— Gore Verbinski (Rango) from this interview
Thanks to John for the heads up about the quote.