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LaBeouf quits blockbusters

Actor won't make any more blockbusters, will instead concentrate on independent productions

Shia LaBeouf has said he's finished with making big studio blockbuster films.

“I'm done,” he told the Hollywood Reporter. “There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. You give Terrence Malick a movie like 'Transformers', and he's f****d. There's no way for him to exist in that world.

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“[The major studios] give you the money, then get on a plane and come to the set and stick a finger up your a** and chase you around for five months.”

The outspoken actor is currently starring in indie gangster film 'Lawless', directed by John Hillcoat, and has a stream of other indie productions in the pipeline, including a rumoured lead role in 'Nymphomaniac' directed by Lars Von Trier and 'The Company You Keep', directed by Robert Redford.

But he made his name in big budget blockbusters like the 'Transformers' series with Michael Bay.

He also added that he 'deeply regrets' comments he made about 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', when he said publicly that Spielberg had 'dropped the ball' on the franchise.

“He told me there's a time to be a human being and have an opinion, and there's a time to sell cars. It brought me freedom, but it also killed my spirits because this was a dude I looked up to like a sensei,” he said.