Making film compilation video. Importing help

I'm new to Premiere Pro and editing in general. I would like to make a video compilation that uses scenes from different films. My sources will be various hi def MP4's and MKV's and AVI's of the film's themselves.
When I import a film into Premiere it goes through a long "conforming" process and since I plan to use 20-30 different films I'm wonder if there's a better way to go about this. Is there a way to snip the clips I want from the films either in Premiere or another program and then just import the parts I will be using rather than having 30 full films imported into my project?

Once I've pulled all my clips is there going to be a way to get rid of all the temp files without messing up my project? I don't even need the .cfa files...
No... with one exception:
Conforming audio
"To avoid conforming, use audio editing software,
or transcoding software, to convert your files to natively-supported
uncompressed formats at the supported sampling rates."
..will saving temp files to an external 2.0 usb drive make editing and compiling slower?
That would be likely. You can certainly try it.

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