but I had a driving need to do something __14__ with my life,” he says.
He moved to Hollywood, promising to find his __15__ . But he didn’t make it. For almost 10 years, he drove a taxi and worked as a waiter, __16__ at an actors’ workshop that he opened in Hollywood. But Moresco kept working at his __17__ career.
In 1983 his younger brother was murdered in a moblinked killing. Moresco moved back to his old neighborhood. In 1988 he finally wrote a play that was __18__ to his life. Called HalfDeserted Streets, it was based on his brother’s __19__ and staged at a small theater. A Hollywood producer happened to see it and asked him to work on a screenplay.
His __20__ grew, and he got enough assignments to move back to Hollywood. However, it was never easy. By 2003, he was again out of work and out of cash __21__ he got a call from Paul Haggis, a director who had befriended him. The two worked on a script but every studio turned it down. Moresco believed so __22__ 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 movie, Crash,__23__ into the theaters in May 2005, and quietly became both a hit and a critical success. It won three Academy Awards—Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Writing.
At the age of 54, Bobby Moresco became an __24__ success. “If you have something you want to do in life, don’t think about the problems,” he says, “think about the ways to get it done. ”
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