It is a lie.

Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.

A film is not what happened, a film is an impression of what happened. — Dustin Lance Black

Artists use lies to tell the truth. Yes, I created a lie. But because you believed it, you found something true about yourself.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

Art is a lie that reveals the truth.

The lie, the perfect lie, about people we know, about the relations we have with them, about our motive for some action, formulated in totally different terms, the lie as to what we are, whom we love, what we feel with regard to people who love us … that lie is one of the few things in the world that can open windows for us on to what is new and unknown, that can awaken in us sleeping senses for the contemplation of universes that otherwise we should never have known.

It's not what a movie is about, it's how it is about it.

The lie, of course, is more interesting.

the lie is a condition of life.

And now you see why lies matter. The actual fib might not matter, but what it shows us is that what you say can’t always be trusted. You can’t always be trusted.

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade.

To lie is to intentionally mislead others when they expect honest communication.