Editing Brian De Palma (section)

==Early life and education ==
De Palma was born on September 11, 1940, in [[Newark, New Jersey]], the youngest of three boys. His Italian-American parents were Vivienne DePalma (née Muti), and [[Anthony F. DePalma]], an [[orthopedic]] surgeon who was the son of immigrants from [[Alberona]], [[Province of Foggia]].<ref>[http://www.filmreference.com/film/80/Brian-De-Palma.html "Brian De Palma Biography (1940–)"]. ''Film Reference''. Retrieved January 14, 2012.</ref> He was raised in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]] and [[New Hampshire]], and attended various [[Protestant]] and [[Religious Society of Friends|Quaker]] schools, eventually graduating from [[Friends' Central School]]. He had a poor relationship with his father, and would secretly follow him to record his adulterous behavior; this would eventually inspire the teenage character in De Palma's [[Dressed to Kill (1980 film)|''Dressed to Kill'']] (1980).<ref>{{cite web |last1=Clark |first1=Ashley |title=Brian de Palma: 'Film lies all the time … 24 times a second' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/07/brian-de-palma-carrie-scarface-retrospective-documentary |website=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 7, 2016 |access-date=June 18, 2018}}</ref> When he was in high school, he built computers.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.avclub.com/article/brian-de-palma-talks-about-his-stylish-new-remake--102271 |title=Brian De Palma talks about his stylish new remake, Passion |newspaper=A.V. Club |date=August 30, 2013 |first=Ben |last=Kenigsberg |access-date=October 26, 2014 }}</ref> He won a regional science-fair prize for his project "An [[Analog computer|Analog Computer]] to Solve [[Differential Equations]]".

Enrolled at [[Columbia University]] as a [[physics]] student,<ref>{{cite book |last=Bliss |first=Michael |date=1983 |title=Brian De Palma |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OWscAQAAIAAJ |location=Metuchen, New Jersey |publisher=[[Scarecrow Press]] |page=139 |isbn=0-8108-1621-0}}</ref> De Palma became enraptured with filmmaking after seeing [[Orson Welles]]'s ''[[Citizen Kane]]'' (1941) and [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s ''[[Vertigo (film)|Vertigo]]'' (1958). After receiving his undergraduate degree in 1962, De Palma enrolled at the newly mixed-gender [[Sarah Lawrence College]] as a graduate student in their [[theater]] department,<ref>{{cite news |last=De Palma |first=Brian |date=February 11, 2020 |title=Brian De Palma Remembers Filming a Student Film With Kirk Douglas |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/brian-de-palma-remembers-filming-a-student-film-kirk-douglas-1278774 |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |access-date=February 11, 2020}}</ref> earning an [[Master of Arts|M.A.]] in the discipline in 1964 and becoming one of the first male students in a predominantly female school. Once there, influences as various as drama teacher [[Wilford Leach]], the [[Albert and David Maysles| Maysles brothers]], [[Michelangelo Antonioni]], [[Andy Warhol]] and [[Jean-Luc Godard]], impressed upon De Palma the many styles and themes that would shape his work in the coming decades.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brian De Palma |url=https://www.thedailystar.net/showbiz/int%E2%80%99l-film/brian-de-palma-1268695 |work=[[The Daily Star (Oneonta)|The Daily Star]] |date=August 13, 2016 |access-date=January 29, 2017}}</ref>