“During the Depression, as (Eastwood’s) father found and lost jobs, the family was constantly on the move … (T)his peripatetic life may be a cause of Eastwood’s habit in his movies of appearing out of nowhere at the beginning and disappearing at the end.”
From “Out of the West — Clint Eastwood’s Shifting Landscape,” by David Denby, in the March 8, 2010 issue of The New Yorker.