Movies have been "talkies" since the late 1920s. That means characters speak. The following screenshot shows an example of Bobby, Fred, and Max "bouncing" off each other in Portals:

The same general rule of keeping to four lines or less applies to dialog just like in action. This is one of those little things that, if violated, causes our script to scream "amateur" when we really want it to be confidently and persuasively purring "buy me, I'm a winner".

The following screenshot shows an example of breaking up a long dialog and handling a phone conversation, with a little characterization thrown in. Blake is one of the bad guys in Portals, an ex-CIA killer, and general nogoodnik.

In Celtx, there is a special way to break dialog and still keep the Dialog element format—hit shift+Enter twice. This puts the necessary "soft" returns in to keep it in Dialog.

Celtx assists us to write faster, as we've already learned earlier in this book. One of these ways is when we type a character's name...