I figured, after a while, I'd get back to writing, and necessarily I'd be writing about the good/bad old days when there was still interesting trouble, when there was still a future of possibility, when there were still the high stakes of aging and mortality, and when you still had some skin in the game.
Get yourself into interesting trouble.
Bogdanovich tosses out the title of each of Hitchcock's films; Hitchcock responds, sometimes with striking pronouncements at the same level of inner revelation and sometimes with anecdotes, as with this explanation of the complexity of shooting with sound in the early days, on "Juno and the Paycock" (1930): It was interesting the trouble one went to for sound at that time.
While the design techniques remain the same, the open-loop response of the op amp gives rise to some interesting, but troubling, limitations to what can be done in the design of an active filter.
That's when things get interesting, and troubling too.
The idea is that yearning makes us human, and our idiosyncratic desires often get us into interesting forms of trouble.
Having had trouble interesting producers with his scripts, he got his first big break following an unlikely conversation with a stockbroker.
While Albers's observations are interesting, I am troubled by her insistence on establishing some physiological explanation for the brilliance of Mitchell's abstract evocations of sights and emotions.
I am sure there are young designers who are as interesting but I have trouble replacing Miyake, Yamamoto and Comme des Garçons.
It's done all the time, and not just by strangers at parties or by various booksellers that have no trouble calling interesting, complex novels by women "Women's Fiction," as if men should have nothing to do with them.
As she wrote in a 1980 essay for the magazine Transmission, titled "Lost Races of Science Fiction": "No writer who regards blacks as people, human beings, with the usual variety of human concerns, flaws, skills, hopes, etc., would have trouble creating interesting backgrounds and goals for black characters".
