Steven Spielberg Credits Robin Williams For Helping Him During Schindler’s List Filming

Filmmaker Steven Spielberg credits late actor Robin Williams for helping him get through the trauma of filming Schindler’s List.

The Lincoln filmmaker and Williams became close after they worked together on 1991’s Hook and when Spielberg took on the emotional task of directing Schindler’s List which was about German businessman Oskar Schindler, who is credited with saving 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust, Williams was there to comfort his friend by performing stand-up over the phone, reports aceshowbiz.com.

“Robin called me,” Spielberg said at the Tribeca Film Festival’s 25th-anniversary screening of the film on Thursday.

“Robin knew what I was going through. Once a week he called me on schedule. He knew exactly what time it was in Poland, what time it was in San Francisco… and he would do 15 minutes of stand-up on the phone, and I would laugh hysterically because I had to release so much,” said Spielberg.