Enter Shia LaBeouf who's sounding off about the ills of the studio system with some not-so-nice words. LaBeouf, 26, shot to fame as the lead in the Transformers film franchise, which he now decries as movie-making at its worst.
"I'm done," he tells The Hollywood Reporter of his former life as a big-budget action star. "There's no room for being a visionary in the studio system. It literally cannot exist. ... You give (director) Terrence Malick a movie like Transformers, and he's (expletive). There's no way for him to exist in that world."
LaBeouf says that now he's all about making indies and only taking on roles that scare him. He's making good on that promise with a crop of under-the-radar films on the horizon in the next year, including the bootlegger drama Lawless, which was written by musician Nick Cave and is out Labor Day weekend.
He'll also star in controversial director Lars von Trier's The Nymphomaniac, an experience that LaBeouf finds both thrilling and frightening. "He scares me. And I'm only going to work now when I'm terrified."
Candor, on the other hand, is not something that terrifies LaBeouf, but he concedes that he learned a hard lesson about being vocal when he spoke out against his Indiana Jones director Steven Spielberg a few years ago.
"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
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