"To use “Spotlight” as an occasion to wax nostalgic for the vanishing glory of print would be to miss the point. The movie celebrates a specific professional accomplishment and beautifully captures the professional ethos of journalism. It is also a defense of professionalism in a culture that increasingly holds it in contempt."

"Mr. McCarthy is a solid craftsman. The actors are disciplined and serious, forgoing the table-pounding and speechifying that might more readily win them prizes from their peers. Everything in this movie works, which is only fitting, since its vision of heroism involves showing up in the morning and — whether inspired by bosses or in spite of them — doing the job."

"Mark Ruffalo - Michael Rezendes"

"Laurie Heineman - Judge Constance Sweeney"

"Michael Cyril Creighton - Joe Crowley"

"Jeff Daniels - John Sculley"

"Michael Stuhlbarg - Andy Hertzfeld"

"Seth Rogen - Steve Wozniak"

"We got two stories here: a story about degenerate clergy, and a story about a bunch of lawyers turning child abuse into a cottage industry. Which story do you want us to write? Because we're writing one of them."

"Michael Fassbender - Steve Jobs"

"Kate Winslet - Joanna Hoffman"

"This is how it happens, isn't it Pete? Guy leans on a guy. And suddenly the whole town just looks the other way."

"Lisa Brennan: I had two different Harvard statisticians try to reverse-engineer the equation that you came up with to prove that 28% of American men could be my father. You know, my mother might be a troubled woman, but what’s your excuse? That’s why I’m not impressed with your story, dad! It’s that you knew what I was going through, and you didn’t do anything about it, and that makes you an unconscionable coward. And not for nothing, but “Think” is a verb, alright? Making “Different” an adverb. You’re asking people to “Think Differently”. And you-- And you can talk about the Bauhaus movement and Braun and "simplicity is sophistication" and Issey Miyake uniforms and Bob Dylan lyrics all you want, but that thing? (pointing at one of the posters of the iMac) Looks like Judy Jetson's easy-bake oven."

"I forced the vote because I believed I was right. I still believe I'm right, and I'm right. Now, I bled that night, and I don't bleed. But time's done its thing, and I really haven't thought about it in a while."

"We will know soon enough if you are Leonardo Da Vinci or just think you are."

"It's not binary. You can be gifted and decent at the same time."

"John, listen to me: Whoever said "The customer is always right" was, I promise you, a customer."

"Sometimes it's easy to forget that we spend most of our time stumbling around the dark. Suddenly, a light gets turned on and there's a fair share of blame to go around. I can't speak to what happened before I arrived, but all of you have done some very good reporting here. Reporting that I believe is going to have an immediate and considerable impact on our readers. For me, this kind of story is why we do this."

"[to Andy Hertzfeld] Five in six is your chance of surviving the first round of Russian Roulette, and you've reversed those odds. So unless you wanna be disgraced in front of your friends, family, colleagues, stockholders and the press, I wouldn't stand here arguing. Now go try and get some more bullets out of the gun. (after a moment of brief silence) DO IT, ANDY!"

"John Sculley: [to Steve] Don't play stupid; you can't pull it off."

"This city, these people... making the rest of us feel like we don't belong. But they're no better than us. Look at how they treat their children. Mark my words, Mr. Rezendes. If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse one."

"When you're a poor kid from a poor family, religion counts for a lot. And when a priest pays attention to you, it's a big deal. He asks you to collect the hymnals or take out the trash, you feel special. It's like God asking for help. So maybe it's a little weird when he tells you a dirty joke, but now you got a secret together, so you go along. Then he shows you a porno mag, and you go along. And you go along, and you go along, until one day he asks you to jerk him off or give him a blow job. And so you go along with that, too, because you feel trapped, because he has groomed you. How do you say no to God, right? See, it is important to understand that this is not just physical abuse, it's spiritual abuse, too. And when a priest does this to you, he robs you of your faith. So you reach for the bottle or the needle. Or if those don't work, you jump off a bridge. That's why we call ourselves survivors."

"Peter Canellos: They say it's just physical abuse but it's more than that, this was spiritual abuse. You know why I went along with everything? Because priests, are supposed to be the good guys."

"Break the story. Break the silence."

"Rachel Ryan - Karen Peluso"

"Brian Benben - Martin"

"Henry Judd Baker - Xavier"

"Claudia Christian - Iris"

"J. David Krassner - Tiller"

"M. Emmet Walsh - Richard"

"Luca Bercovici - Lenny"

"Dakin Matthews - Bob"

"Tate Donovan - Donald"

"Michael Keaton...in an unexpected film...about thirty remarkable days in the life of an ordinary man."

"Michael Keaton - Daryl"

"Thirty remarkable days in the life of an ordinary man."

"Kathy Baker - Charlie"

"Morgan Freeman - Craig"

"Ben Piazza - Kramer"

"Brandon Lafourche - Arabian Prince"

"Tyron Woodley - T-Bone"

"LaDell Preston - Shorty"

"Jordan Can - J-Dee"

"Steve Turner - Keith Shocklee"

"Keith Stanfield - Snoop Dogg"

"Sheldon A. Smith - Warren G"

"R. Marcos Taylor - Suge Knight"

"J. Kristopher - Lay Law"