"You need to escape and do something creative after sitting in front of a computer for 15 hours a day," says 47-year-old Elliot Arking, cofounder of two new arts and crafts superstores based in the New York City area.
In the apparently scripted footage, which lasts six and a half minutes, he says: "Now, unless we tried something stupid like escaping or doing something we shouldn't, we were treated well by the Islamic State.
In the fifth episode of the propaganda films series entitled Lend Me Your Ears, released in November, Mr Cantlie said: "Now, unless we tried something stupid like escaping or doing something we shouldn't, we were treated well by the Islamic State.
Cantlie, sitting at a table in front of a black backdrop, says in the footage that the prisoners were treated "well" by the Islamic State, "unless we tried something stupid like escaping or doing something we shouldn't".
Is it better to stay and rot in an East German jail or to escape and be free to try to do something from here for those they had to leave?
I was just laying in bed thinking, I just want to escape this and do something with my hands.
"They can't escape … And they're going to have to do something.
Dare to fail to do something new.
If you can look past how difficult it feels to hold the conversation and how much you wish you could escape and do something less demanding, you can find yourself genuinely amazed at finding out things about this guy that he only reveals to people who take the time to care enough to break through his tough exterior.
I was escaping unemployment and doing something really exciting.
Malkmus told Melody Maker in 1992 that "Pavement was originally a pathetic effort by us to do something to escape the terminal boredom we were experiencing in Stockton".
