Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

A somewhat rudimentary bio-doc that isn't especially insightful, but which features excellent archival material

I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy. Because they know what it's like to feel absolutely worthless and they don't want anybody else to feel like that.

• Robin Williams

I can remember the night my friend George Miller, who was a very funny comic, and I were at The Comedy Store, and they introduced Robin Williams. And for some reason in the beginning, he was introduced as being from Scotland; for some reason they said he was Scot__tish. So now we're stumped. There's a Scottish guy? Really? Coming to the United States? So we're feeling pretty smug about our position right away, because it's going to be haggis and that kind of crap. So we're relaxed. All of a sudden he comes up on stage and you know what it is, it's like nothing we had ever seen before, nothing we had ever imagined before. We go home at night and are writing our little jokes about stuff, and this guy comes in and we're like morning dew, he comes in like a hurricane. And now, the longer he's on stage, the worse we feel about ourselves. Because it's not stopping. And then he finishes, and I thought, "well that's it, they're going to have to put an end to show business, because what can happen after this?" We get to see this night after night after night, and we didn't approach him because we were afraid of him. Honest to God, you're thinking, "Holy crap, there goes my chance at show business because of this guy from Scotland." [...] But beyond being a very talented man, and a good friend, and a gentleman, I'm sorry, like everybody else, I had no idea that the man was in pain, that the man was suffering. What a guy, Robin Williams.

• David Letterman; Late Show with David Letterman (August 19, 2014)

_The brilliance was astounding, the relentless energy was thrilling. I used to think that if I could just put a saddle on him and s...