From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business.

If you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want next time.

This week on the business, really, really, all the right life.

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone Hollywood.

This week on the business, we replay our interview with the inimitable director, Werner Herzog.

He talks about his take-no-prisoners approach to filmmaking and about playing the villain in movies, even though he's really a fluffy husband.

But first, a little inspiration from the Animator's Letters Project.

Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.

You can imagine Hollywood everything is really driven by making money.

What's with him?

Oh, I'm afraid he's gone to Hollywood, Hollywood.

Over these past months, we've asked a few animators to read letters that they wrote for the blog,

The Animator's Letters Project. Today we'll re-air one from Pixar animator Austin Madison.

But first, we'll hear from the blogger behind the project, Willie Downs. Downs had always dreamed of being an animator, and today he's pursuing that goal through an online animation school.

But he didn't take the most direct route to get there.

After high school, he spent six years in the military, including a nine-month tour with the Army in Iraq.

I didn't do a whole lot of fighting myself. We did more patrols,

you know, four-truck patrols around the base and all the, through the Bedouin camps and the little

villages around the area, just kind of keeping everything safe, making sure nobody was doing

anything they weren't supposed to do, but that was really what we did. After Downs returned,

he started aviation school, thinking he'd get a job as a pilot. I really wanted to do animation, but almost

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