Spotlight (film)

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"The true story behind the scandal that shook the world."

"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"

"Michael Keaton - Walter "Robby" Robinson"

"Rachel McAdams - Sacha Pfeiffer"

"Liev Schreiber - Marty Baron"

"John Slattery - Ben Bradlee Jr."

"Brian d'Arcy James - Matt Carroll"

"Stanley Tucci - Mitchell Garabedian"

"Gene Amoroso - Stephen Kurkjian"

"Jamey Sheridan - Jim Sullivan"

"Billy Crudup - Eric MacLeish"

"Richard Jenkins - Richard Sipe"

"Paul Guilfoyle - Peter Conley"

"Len Cariou - Cardinal Bernard Law"

"Neal Huff - Phil Saviano of SNAP"

"Michael Cyril Creighton - Joe Crowley"

"Laurie Heineman - Judge Constance Sweeney"