Uma Thurman's stalker: "our eyes connected"

A man accused of stalking actress Uma Thurman said he fell for the Pulp Fiction star after ""our eyes connected" while he watched one of her films.

"I could see she was making contact with me," Jackson Jordan, 37, told police in a statement.

"Over the years my attraction to her grew."

Jordan, who has pleaded not guilty to stalking Thurman for more than two years, told how he moved to New York to be with her, but was knocked back when he tried to talk to the actress on a movie set.

"We are meant to be together," Jordan said. "She is a wonderful person."

A Manhattan judge refused to lower Jackson's $10,000 USD bail and sent him back to jail where he has been since his arrest last month.

The former California graduate student, also known as Jack Jordan, was arrested outside Thurman's home in Manhattan after he drove across America and started living in his car parked on her street.

He once tried to get into her trailer on a movie set in 2005 and showered her and her family with e-mails professing his love. "Years ago, I saw Uma Thurman in a movie and our eyes connected," he said.

Jordan faces charges of harassment, stalking and felony coercion, after he threatened to kill himself if he spotted her with another man.

"[Jordan] has a longstanding fixation with this celebrity," said prosecutor Chris Hill. But his lawyer said the coercion charge was "a stretch".

And he said Jordan was being harshly treated because Thurman is famous. Laywer George Vomvolakis said: "Mr Jordan should not be prosecuted to a higher degree because the victim is a public figure."

Jordan, who has a degree in English literature from the prestigious University of Chicago, got confused when asked to enter a plea in Manhattan State Supreme court on Friday.

"I plead guilty. I mean, I plead not guilty," he told Judge Lewis Bart Stone. Jordan was ordered to return to court on December 5 - and was told to stay away from Thurman until then.