Bobby Moresco grew up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, a tough working-class neighbourhood on Manhattan’s West Side. By tradition he         have been a construction worker or a policeman, just like his father and most of his childhood pals.        , he wanted out. Attracted by the bright lights from the time Bobby was a teen, he tried to          . “I wasn’t a         actor, but I had a driving need to do something          with my life,” he said.
He moved to Hollywood, promising to find his       . But he didn’t make it. For almost 10 years, he drove a taxi and worked as a waiter, volunteering at an actors’ workshop that he opened in Hollywood. But Moresco kept working at his             career.
In 1983 his younger brother was murdered in a mob-linked killing. Moresco was forced to give up working and moved back to his         neighbourhood. In 1988 he finally wrote a play that was          to his life. Called Half-Deserted Streets, it was based on his brother’s           and staged at a small theater. A Hollywood producer         to see it and asked him to work on a screenplay.
His         grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. However, it was never easy. By 2003, he was         out of work and out of cash            he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. The two worked on the script and tried some famous studios, but their request was       . Moresco believed so         in the script that he borrowed money, and sold his house. At last the writers found an independent film producer who would take a chance.
The       , slipped into the theatres in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and an overnight success. It       him two Academy Awards — Best Film Editing and Best Writing.
At the age of 54, Bobby Moresco became an         success. “If you have something you want to do in life, don’t think about the problems,” he says, “think about the           to get it done.”

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