The Fall

I enjoyed digging into Tarsem Singh’s interviews about how The Fall was his passion project.

From his interview with Vulture (October 15, 2024):

I thought of it for 27 years, and every year, if I’d made it, it would have been a different film. The practical issues that come up are different. And that kind of financial situation would never happen again. I had so much money from making 20 years of award-winning commercials.

And it happened at the right time. My Italian girlfriend dumped me. I met Catinca, and I’d been looking for the child, boy or girl, for the film for seven years. I thought, We make the movie now, or like my brother used to say, we’ll be two old guys with a lot of money that are talking about a movie that they’ll never make. I told my brother, “Sell everything. I want to have nothing.” I’ll never be in that position again, because now I have a son. You gotta give him something to carry on and carry on. But back then, it was like, “Fuck it, burn the bridges behind me. Let’s go make this.”