Biografía

She became an honorary citizen of Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia.

Longtime companion of photographer Annie Leibovitz (from the mid 1980s until Sontag's death).

Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 28th Venice International Film Festival in 1967.

Spent much time in Bosnia during the 1990s. She directed "Waiting for Godot" in a theatre in bombed Sarajevo.

She is interred at "Cimiterie Montparnasse" in Paris, France located in [Plot: Division 2, Section 2, 1 East, 28 North, concession number 3PA2005].

Cinema is the most alive, the most exciting, the most important of all art forms

Perhaps no work of art *is* art. It can only *become* art, when it is part of the past

I think it was rock&roll the reason I got divorced. I think it was Bill Haley and the Comets and Chuck Berry that made me decide to get a divorce and leave the academic world

The youngest of the arts is also the most heavily burdened with memory. Cinema is a time machine. Movies preserve the past, resurrect the beautifil dead; present, intact, vanished or ruined environments; enbody without ironu styles and fashions that seem funny today; solemnly ponder irrelevant or naive problems. The historical particularity of the reality registered on celluloid is so vivid that practically all films older than four or five years are saturated with pathos

One of the tasks art has assumed is making forays into and taking up positions on the frontiers of consciousness (often very dangerous to the artist as a person) and reporting back what's there