LOS ANGELES: A representative for Steven Spielberg has dismissed allegations that the filmmaker is so terrified of his movie ideas leaking to rivals that he imposes bizarre security measures on his staff.

According to a new book by former Variety magazine reporter Nicole LaPorte, the moviemaker has enforced fort-like conditions to ensure no film ideas leak out from his Los Angeles office, reports imdb.com.

The book, The Men Who Would Be King, also claims Spielberg insists on being prepared for a natural disaster and even hands out survival kits to his staff.

“His passion for secrecy sometimes suggests a burgeoning near paranoia. In Spielberg’s office, hanging above his desk, a plexiglass half-moon keeps sound from reverberating so that his phone conversations remain ultra-confidentia”.”

“When Spielberg’s long time editor views footage in the screening room, a black cloth is draped over the projection booth window to hide the screen. Every document that leaves the office — script, development report, even a memo — is coded, so that if it somehow gets into the wrong hands, the person responsible for the breach can be identifi”d.”