Remove clips, or cut clips out of projects pane

I'm not sure if I got it right but, the area to the bottom left hand side, is where I am importing movies, for editing, and of course, I am draggings segments of thise movies into the 'event' section at the top left.
Now my problem is that a. I've got a lot of movies that I want to import and snag clips from and throw them up there into the event pane, and b. everytime I import a movie, I can't shorten it, or delete the rest of the movie clip that I don't want to use. I can't seem to delete them either after I've dragged a clip of them into the event pane so in essence it's taking a lot of space, and I believe RAM as wel.
Is there anything I can do with those imported movies?

OK I watched one of the videos - thank you. In essence, I can import videos of all sorts and amounts and they'll be in the event pane, and from there, I can grabs snippets of this video or that video from any particular event.
Yes.
So I can import 1 video, and have it under 1 event. Then import another video and have it in another event. And then while I'm creating the video, I can sift through each or any event and grab a snippet of the video from there and drag it up into the project I'm working on.
Yes. You've got it.
Thanks Matthew!
You're welcome. Happy to help.
Matt

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