"INTERVIEWER
You took Godard’s famous quotation and changed it around—film means lying twenty-four times a second.
HANEKE
Although no one ever bothers to quote me to the end. Film means lying twenty-four times a second—in the service of truth. 
Film, of course, is always a lie. It never tells the truth. But film, more so than any other form of art, conveys the impression that we are beholding something real."

https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6354/michael-haneke-the-art-of-screenwriting-no-5-michael-haneke