Steven Spielberg rules out any more action movies

Steven Spielberg has dashed any hopes of another ‘Indiana Jones’ flick by saying he will never make another action movie.

The two-time Oscar winner made the disappointing revelation in a candid interview on American TV show ‘60 Minutes’.

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The acclaimed filmmaker told ‘60 Minutes’ host Lindsay Stahl that he was more enthused about making films like his forthcoming Abraham Lincoln feature, ‘Lincoln’, than revisiting his ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Jaws’ days.

“I knew I could do the action in my sleep at this point in my career,” he said. “In my life, the action doesn't hold any - it doesn't attract me anymore.”

Spielberg also admitted that despite his five decades-worth of success in the movie business he still gets nervous when directing a film. He also revealed that he was bullied as a child and that ‘E.T.’ was a direct consequence of his parents’ divorce. He admitted that recent movies were driven by his reconciliation with his father.

Confronting the notion of nerves, he revealed: “It's not really fear. It's just much more of an anticipation of the unknown. And you know, the unknown could be food poisoning. It's just the kind of level of anxiety not being able to write my life as well as I can write my movies.”

And he didn’t hold back when talking about his childhood, admitting that he was subjected to anti-Semitic bullies who would chant ‘The Spielbergs are dirty Jews’ in his neighbourhood. He added that discovering filmmaking was a way of accepting who he was.

He finally talked about his eagerly anticipated ‘Lincoln’ biopic, which stars Daniel Day-Lewis as the titular 16th American president. He disclosed that Lincoln was “… the father of the nation in need of repair. And in a sense, the movies I've made recently have reflected the positive relationships that my dad and I have enjoyed for 20, 25 years.”