Every semester, Feige applied to the film school—and five times in a row, he was rejected. “My friends and my family started to politely suggest that maybe I look for another major,” he said. “They said USC was actually a very large university with a number of wonderful areas of academic study outside of film. I told them I had no idea what they were talking about.” The sixth time Feige applied to the USC film program, he got in.
