20 Things You Didn't Know About Christopher Nolan

Nolan has directed so many iconic movie scenes over the last two decades that it's practically impossible to guess what his own personal favourite scene might be.

But in a 2015 Q&A, Nolan was flat-out asked to pick a favourite scene, and landed on the thrilling IMAX opening of The Dark Knight Rises, where Bane (Tom Hardy) crashes a CIA plane. The director said:

"It took us about two days in Scotland...And it was an incredible sort of coming together of months and months of planning by a lot of different members of the team who worked for months rehearsing these parachute jumps and wind walking, all these different things…The visual effects work in the sequence is very minimal…I was really amazed by what the team we had put together had achieved using very sort of old-fashioned methods, in a way. I was very proud of the way that came together."