'The Artist' director responds to Kim Novak: 'I've done nothing wrong'

The Artist director Michel Hazanavicius has responded to recent negative comments made by veteran actress Kim Novak.

Novak released a statement complaining that her body of work had been "raped" by the film, due to its use of Bernard Herrmann's score from Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.

Hazanavicius replied by saying that he had done "nothing wrong" and that film scores have been used in other movies for many years.

He said that he is "inspired by the work of Hitchcock" and that the Vertigo 'Love Theme' has been "used in many different films" and that he is "very pleased to have it in [his]".



"I've done nothing wrong," he told CNN at the New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Monday. "I used music from another movie, but it's not illegal.

"We paid for that, we asked for that and we had the permission to do it. For me there is no real controversy.

"I feel sorry for her, but there's a lot of movies with music from other movies, directors do that all the time and I'm not sure it's a big deal."

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