[re lead character Davie in his mother's book, which became his film Tiger Eyes (2012)] I still really related to her sense of isolation and trying to figure her life out on her own. And I also thought it was very cinematic. I could see it, when I read: the canyons, the locations, the whole thing. I could just see it in my mind's eye, and I thought, 'I want to make this into a movie.'