I know what you mean; I couldn't do it either.<p>However, he confessed his lie, and now he works making movies. They're lies too! They're <i>fictional</i>. Yet good things -- including important truths -- come out of them.<p>Richard Branson confesses in his autobiography how he started his business career with lies. He would phone up a bank and try to sell advertising space in his student magazine by claiming that a rival bank had already bought space and that they should get in on the action.