Not many professional film-makers, let alone those with an international reputation, could have made that statement with such unselfconscious simplicity. Film-making is a risky, time-consuming business and few of the practitioners of that enterprise have time for any other involvement. But Satyajit Ray, who makes the above remark in his article, My Life, My Work, was not only continuously engaged in directing films during the last 40 years of his life but also wrote several full-length books for children.