Screenwriting 101: Billy Ray

“You can take a scene that’s good and make it horrible, by putting it in the wrong place. You can take a scene that’s really average, and make it interesting, by putting it int the right place. It has to be somewhere that’s credible…somewhere that has significance to the characters that are in that scene… Putting a scene in a location that puts your characters under pressure, makes them react, that’s always a good thing.”

 — Billy Ray, screenwriter of Hart’s War (2002), Flightplan (2005), State of Play (2009)
“The Dialogue Series”