When you've been shot at with real bullets,
it's sometimes hard to take the usual setbacks of daily life that seriously.
Even if you don't immediately recognize the name of this week's guest,
you are almost certainly familiar with his work.
Bill Broyles wrote the screenplays for Apollo 13, Castaway, Jarhead,
Planet of the Apes, and Flags of Our Father, others, among others.
And Broyle's writing for the screen has been informed,
at least in part, by an eventful personal life.
As a young man, he was a U.S.
marine Corps platoon commander in Vietnam,
an experience he recalls in the Apple TV series the War that Changed America.
And he was subsequently a journalist,
launching Texas Monthly and editing Newsweek before heading to Hollywood.
I'm Andrew Muller, and I spoke to Bill Broyles for the Big Interview.
William Broyles, welcome to the Big Interview.
Thank you so much.
It's nice to be here.
Well, it's good to have you back on.
We did talk to you a few weeks back about your participation in Apple's new series about Vietnam,
the war that changed America.