>LYNCH: It's [Mulholland Drive] a lot like music. Music, they say, it's an abstraction. It is very far away from words. And a film is a thing that... People want to have an easy understanding of a film, but when it's music they don't have that problem. There is not an intellectual thing going on, it's just an experience. But films have those same elements, just experience. Plus, film can say abstractions that can be intuited, so you use your intuition, and then the understanding comes inside you. I think people should trust the understanding that comes to them from the experience. Now, it might be hard to take what's inside of you and tell your friend in words what it is, it's like a dream sometimes: you tell your friend a dream, and you can see in their face that they don't understand, the words fail you, but you still know inside. So it's not that difficult to understand if you trust your inner feeling.
Is classical music an abstraction? Just a mere experience? Do you ever try to intellectualise Chopin? Or is more like a dream?