Christopher Nolan says blowing up the hospital in 'The Dark Knight' is the one day he'd want to relive in his career

Christopher Nolan was a guest on the latest episode of the "Hollywood Insiders with Hawk Koch" podcast where he talked about his long career. At one point, Koch asked a very specific question about Nolan's rich history.

"If you could go back to one day of your film making life, not to change it, just to experience it again, which day would you choose?," Koch asked.

Nolan picked the hospital explosion scene from The Dark Knight with Heath Ledger, citing the "tension" leading up to it and the thrill of success is the feeling he'd want to relive.

"It's the tensioning up to it, I think about blowing a hospital for The Dark Knight. Having a lead actor walk out of it, in the shot, and then drive away. The planning that went into that, the months and months of planning. And the tension. Rehearsing again and again. But yeah once you pull it off, all that floods away. Yeah, that's the best of times. It's an incredible moment."

Nolan found an abandoned candy factory in Chicago, where most of The Dark Knight was filmed, to stand in for the hospital. Nolan likes to do things for real, and you only have one take for something like that.

Here's a video from The Dark Knight Blu-ray that goes behind-the-scenes of that day.

SOURCE: Hollywood Insiders with Hawk Koch