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

You listen, if you listen and learn, then you're going to be able to do anything you want this time.

Everybody takes your business, business, really, really, all right life, he doesn't clean, please.

What's with him?

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

Hollywood.

This week on the business, Beasts of the Southern Wild, a small movie that inspired Roger Ebert to write,

sometimes miraculous films come into being made by people you've never heard of,

blindsiding you with creative genius.

Our guest is the film's director, Ben Zaitland.

But first, it's the Hollywood News banter.

Stick around, it's the business from KCRW.

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

What's with him?

I'm joined by my banter buddy, John Horn of the Los Angeles Times.

John phoning in from Napa Valley this time. And the big news of the week,

undeniably, is the election, John.

66.8 million people watch the election. That's down from 71.5 million in 2008. Big winner was NBC News, which won with 11.5 million viewers.

And late at night, CNN passed Fox News, which I think is noteworthy.

But I want to talk a little bit about ABC, which finished third for the evening.

And Diane Sawyer, who kind of lit up the Twitter sphere with her seemingly random comments about the election.

I'll give you a couple, and you tell me what they mean.

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