To learn what Kubrick sounded like in person, you need only listen to the interrogation of Humbert on a hotel patio by his nemesis Clare Quilty. Sly, insinuating and immensely knowledgeable (with a soft Bronx accent), Quilty seems offhand and yet presses every point. Sellers here delivered an auditory photograph of Kubrick.
— David Bromwich (London Review of Books)
It catches something, under there somewhere ... it catches hidden things.
— David Lynch (London Review of Books)
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.