In my experience, honesty is the most important goal in writing character when it comes to scene-internal action, including dialogue. Establishing that honesty has nothing to do with MAKING your characters do the right thing, and everything to do with LETTING them.
As a whole, the story will go in the general direction you desire if the characters you create are ripe for the arcs you mean for them to experience, as well as appropriately resistant to them. At the same time, the writing itself is a chain reaction. Routinely, I am surprised by the actions my characters take and the things they say. Those surprises make my screenplay better.
To put it into tangible terms, the human mind has 7 methods of problem solving available to it. Five of these methods are unconscious. For a script to reach anywhere near it's full potential, the writer must have a framework within which the unconscious solutions can express themselves.
Finding and harnessing those impulses in the context of character is what actors are trained to do. So long as a screenwriter understands basic structure, acting classes will do more for their craft than any amount of reading or seminars.
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